Fanny Hines

Fanny Hines

Nurse Fanny Hines, 1900

Nurse Fanny Hines, 1900
Born Frances Emma Hines
1864
Apsley, Victoria
Died 7 August 1900
Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Cause of death pneumonia
Occupation Nurse

Frances Emma (Fanny) Hines (1864-1900) was a nurse from Victoria, Australia who served in the Boer War. She was the first Australian woman to die on active service.[1][2]

Early life

Frances Emma Hines was born in 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

In March 1900, Sister Hines was one of ten trained nurses who travelled on the Euryalus to South Africa with the 3rd Imperial Bushmen's Contingent.[6]

Death

Sister Hines was nursing at Enkeldoom 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

  1. ↑ "Sister Frances Hines". www.bwm.org.au. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  2. ↑ "Boer War nurses | Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  3. ↑ Index of births, Victoria, Australia
  4. ↑ "Biographies". www.hagsoc.org.au. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  5. ↑ "The Boer War" (PDF). Alfred Hospital Nurses League Inc. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  6. 1 2 Moore, Claire (2012). "Boer War Nurses". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "The grave of Sister Frances Emma (Fanny) Hines". Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  8. ↑ "SOCIAL NOTES.". Leader. 1901-09-21. p. 38. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
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