About Jean Evelyn Headberry
Lived 1911 – 1993 (aged 81–82). Jean Evelyn Headberry was an Australian midwife and nurse.
Jean Evelyn Headberry (15 October 1911 – 1 January 1993) was an Australian registered nurse and midwife who was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1961.
Headberry served as a nursing sister with the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Second World War, and was awarded a Centaur Memorial Scholarship in 1946 to study in England.
Headberry later became the Dean of Royal Melbourne and Associated Hospital's School of Nursing.
She died on 1 January 1993.
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Australian nurse
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Jean Evelyn Headberry was born in 1911.
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Jean Evelyn Headberry died in 1993.
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Jean Evelyn Headberry was a midwife and nurse.
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