Fanny Hines

Frances Emma (Fanny) Hines (1864–August 7, 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]

Fanny Hines
Nurse Fanny Hines, 1900
Nurse Fanny Hines, 1900
Born
Frances Emma Hines

1864
Apsley, Victoria
Died7 August 1900
Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Cause of deathpneumonia
OccupationNurse

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 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
  1. "Sister Frances Hines". www.bwm.org.au. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. "Boer War nurses | Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  3. Index of births, Victoria, Australia
  4. "Biographies". www.hagsoc.org.au. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  5. "The Boer War" (PDF). Alfred Hospital Nurses League Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  6. 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". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  8. "SOCIAL NOTES". Leader. 21 September 1901. p. 38. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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