Alice Gordon Elliott

Alice Gordon King became Alice Gordon Elliott OBE (August 21, 1886 – August 29, 1977) was an Australian nurse and community worker. She became a magistrate and led a Voluntary Aid Detachment during WWII.

Life

Elliott was born in Hobart in Tasmania.

In 1915 she was in a hospital receiving the wounded from the Ottoman attempted Raid on the Suez Canal. The notes she made at the time recorded that the wounded there served as an introduction to the "distressful days of Gallipoli" where she and Sister Radcliffe worked on hospital ships. They were both mentioned in dispatches. advised him that if he got shot again then he should label himself to go to the 10th Australian General Hospital in England as that was where she was heading.

She had to resign following her marriage to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hazell Elliott in December 1917 at St Marylebone Parish Church in London. She joined the Field Naturalists' Club in 1918 and in 1919 she and her husband returned to Tasmania.

Elliott was the commandant of Voluntary Aid Detachment 605 during World War Two and she gave lectures on first aid and gases used in warfare. Her husband died in 1956 and in the same year she was awarded an OBE.

Elliott died in the Hobart suburb of Lindisfarne in 1977.