Pamela Joy Spry

Pamela Joy Spry AM (10 December 1924 – 8 January 2021) was an Australian nurse and Army Officer.

[5] "I wanted nurses to no longer be seen by anyone as 'handmaidens' to the doctors but to begin to become their equal," she later recalled.

[6] Spry served on the South Australia Health Commission, the education committee of the Nurses' Board, and the South Australian branch of the Australian Nursing Federation.

[1] Spry achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps in 1955.

[8] She gave an oral history interview to the J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection at the State Library of South Australia in 1989.