Constance Keys

Constance Mabel Keys (30 October 1886 – 17 March 1964) was one of the most highly decorated nurses from Australia who served in World War I. She was mentioned twice in despatches, was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class and the Médaille des Epidémies.[1]

Sister Constance Keys, RRC (1886-1964)

Biography

Keys was born in Mount Perry, a small town in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, the seventh child of Irish immigrant James Keys, a schoolteacher, and his wife Margaret. Trained at the Brisbane General Hospital as a nurse, she enlisted in September 1914 in the Australian Army Nursing Service, and was sent first to Egypt, later travelling onto Britain and then to France.[1]

References

Merrillees, P. H.; Merrillees, R. S. "Keys, Constance Mabel (1886–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

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[Merrillees-1] Merrillees, P. H.; Merrillees, R. S. "Keys, Constance Mabel (1886–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2016.