Margery Scott-Young (25 May 1912 – 4 November 1997) was an Australian

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at Sydney's

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. She served as a major in the

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during the Second World War.

Biography

Margery Scott-Young was born in North Sydney on 25 May 1912. She attended Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College and qualified as

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from the

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in 1936. Scott-Young was appointed to

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as a resident in 1936, and a year later she was made medical superintendent of the

. She moved to the

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in 1939 and left in 1940 to join the

, eventually rising to the rank of major. She served at the 113th Australian General Hospital at Concord along with fellow women military doctors

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, Helen Braye and

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.Women Doctors Appointed to Military Post
''The Sun''; 13 Feb 1942 After World War II, she returned to the Rachel Forster Hospital's surgical department, holding the position of honorary assistant surgeon (1946–58) and honorary consultant surgeon (1958–72). She retired from practice in 1972 but continued to be active in the

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branch of the

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, the Australian Federation of Medical Women, the Medical Benevolent Association of NSW, and the Australian Postgraduate Federation of Medicine. Scott-Young was elected a fellow of the

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and the

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in 1953. She was appointed

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(CBE) in 1977. Her memoir, titled ''Family Bugles'', was published in 1991, and she died in

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on 4 November 1997.

References

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