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KETTLE
Ellen Sarah
21 April 1922 — 2 August 1999
AKA: Sister Kettle, "hook and eye sister"
Additional Information
Special Achievements
- Nurse of remote Australia, Papua New Guinea, Queensland and Timor.
Additional Information
- Foundation member of northern Territory Chapter of the College of Nursing of Australia.
- 1967 - Author of Gone Bush.
- 1967 - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil).
Resources
Image - Sister Ellen Kettle with Albert Namatjira's twin grandsons
Image courtesy of Northern Territory Library
Document - Kettle MBE, Ellen Sarah
Document courtesy of the "Bicentennial NT Women's Project, '48-'98: Northern Territory Women's Register"
Link - Kettle, Ellen Sarah (1922 - 1999) MBE
The Australian Women's Register
Link - Kettle, Ellen Sarah (1922 - 1999)
The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
Link - Ellen Kettle's Diary
National Treasure from Australia's Great Libraries, National Library of Australia
