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Hilda Mary Hanton
Hilda Mary Hanton Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (23 June 1884 – 14 April 1954) was an Australian hospital matron known for her long service at Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide, Adelaide's Memorial Hospital. She was President of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association during the second world war. Life Hanton was born in 1884 in Yankalilla, South Australia, Yankalilla, south of Adelaide. Her parents were Fannie (born Roach) and her husband Walter Hardy Hanton. Her father was a Wesleyan minister and she was the penultimate child of his five children. Hanton gained a gold medal in 1917 in her exams when she qualified as a nurse after four years of training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, (later Royal) Adelaide Hospital. Within two years she was a charge nurse and she made her first application to be the first matron at the planned Adelaide Memorial Hospital. She was unsuccessful, but a similar application to a smaller 20-bed hospital at Renmark, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yankalilla, South Australia
Yankalilla is an agriculturally based town situated on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, located 72 km south of the state's capital of Adelaide. The town is nestled in the Bungala River (South Australia), Bungala River valley, overlooked by the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and acts as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural district. In the early stages of the colonisation of the state, Yankalilla was a highly important location, but its close proximity to Adelaide and the advent of fast transport has greatly diminished this position. Etymology The origin of the town's name is unclear, but it is known that John Hindmarsh, Governor Hindmarsh recorded the Kaurna pronunciation of "Yoongalilla", as applied to the District and noted this in dispatches of 1837. William Light, Colonel Light, however wrote about it as Yanky-lilly and Yanky Point, giving rise to the unsubstantiated idea that it was named after an American whaling, whaler or an American ship named ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
