Ida Dorothy Love

Ida Dorothy Love (13 November 1908 – 10 May 1990) was an Australian military nurse, midwife and midwifery educator.

Biography Love was born on 13 November 1908 in Orange, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents were railway engineer Matthew Henry Love and Edith Eleanor Love , and she was the eldest of their four children.

After moving to Sydney with her family, Love was educated at Fort Street Girls High School. then became a staff nurse at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She studied midwifery at the Royal South Sydney Women's Hospital in 1938. During World War II, Love was mobilised by the Australian Army Nursing Service on 11 August 1942 and was appointed as a lieutenant in the Second Australian Imperial Force. She served at with the 2/1st at the Australian General Hospital on Bougainville Island during the Bougainville campaign. She was transferred to the army reserve in September 1947.

From 1956 to 1973, she sat on the Nurses’ Registration Board of New South Wales. She was also a member of the council of the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association and the Nurses’ Christian Movement (Fellowship) and the council of the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association.