Frances Emma "Fanny" Hines (26 August 1864 – 7 August 1900) was a nurse from Victoria, Australia, who served in the Second Boer War. She was the first Australian woman to die on active service.[1][2]
Fanny Hines | |
|---|---|
 Nurse Fanny Hines, 1900 | |
| Born | 26 August 1864 Apsley, Victoria |
| Died | 7 August 1900 (aged 35) Bulawayo, Rhodesia |
| Allegiance | Colony of Victoria |
| Service/ | Victorian Military Forces |
| Years of service | 1900 |
| Rank | Sister |
| Battles/wars | Second Boer War |
Early life
editFrances Emma Hines was born on 26 August 1864 in Apsley, Victoria, the fourth daughter of Francis Patrick Hines and his wife Eleanor Mary Caroline (née Brewer).[3][4] She attended the Fairlight Private Girls School in East St Kilda (later the Clyde School) and then trained as a nurse at the Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children.[5]
Military service
editIn March 1900, Sister Hines was one of ten trained nurses who travelled on the Euryalus to South Africa with the Victorian Citizen Bushmen.[6]
Hines was nursing at Enkeldoorn with sole responsibility for 26 patients, which damaged her own health. She died on 7 August 1900 from pneumonia aggravated by malnutrition in an army hospital in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).[6] She was buried with full military honours in Bulawayo. A marble cross was placed on her grave, funded by her fellow nurses and Victorian Citizen Bushmen.[7] On 27 September 1901, a tablet to her memory was unveiled by Major-General Downes at Fairlight School, erected through subscriptions of her former classmates.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Sister Frances Hines". www.bwm.org.au. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Boer War nurses | Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ Index of births, Victoria, Australia
- ^ "Biographies". www.hagsoc.org.au. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "The Boer War" (PDF). Alfred Hospital Nurses League Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ a b Moore, Claire (2012). "Boer War Nurses". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "The grave of Sister Frances Emma (Fanny) Hines". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "SOCIAL NOTES". Leader. 21 September 1901. p. 38. Retrieved 12 September 2015.