Ethel Gray CBE RRC (1876 - 1962)

Born 24 Apr 1876 in Carlton, Victoria

Died 22 Jul 1962 at age 86 in Richmond, Victoria

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Ethel was born in 1876. She passed away in 1962.

Ethel Gray (1876-1962), nursing sister and army matron, was born on 24 April 1876 at Carlton, Melbourne, eldest of the eight children of Samuel Gray, clothing manufacturer from Cavan, Ireland, and his English-born wife Amelia, née Bird.

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Janet Annie McDonald MBE (1885-1958)

AN autumnal background of chrysanthemums and autumn leaves (1934,) ^[1]
provided a handsome setting for a reunion of army nurses at their club rooms in the Orient Buildings on Saturday afternoon. Miss Helen Homan and Miss M. Ashton were the hostesses, and the guest of honor was Matron Gray, of Epworth Hospital, who was matron of the Perth Hospital before the war. Reminiscences were exchanged around the tea table. The opportunity was taken to wish bon voyage to Matron Tessa Dunn, formerly of the McGill Hospital, and Sister Wintle, who left yesterday in the Mongolia for a long tour of England. Other guests were Mesdames Collison, Watkins, Sherwood, H. J. Gray, and McKay, Matron Janet McDonald, Miss Berwick and others.

Sources

1. ↑ Social (1934, May 29). The Daily News
   (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), p. 7 (LATE CITY). Retrieved May 10, 2023

• Merrilyn Lincoln, Gray, Ethel (1876–1962), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
  published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 10 May 2023.