Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsNursesHistoryMiss Langham was born in 1902 and trained as a General Nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, graduating in 1932. Training as a midwife followed, before she commenced a distinguished career, first as Ward Sister then Night Superintendent at the Royal Melbourne; with the Australian Inland Mission in the Northern Territory; and from Feb. 1940 in the Australian Army, where she reached the rank of Captain and served in England, the Middle East and New Guinea. On return to Australia she served as Matron of the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, and after demobilisation, as Matron of the Warrnambool and Ballarat Base Hospitals She was awarded an OBE in 1969, and died in 1988.
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