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Australian nurse

Fanny Hines
Nurse Fanny Hines, 1900
Born(1864-08-26)26 August 1864
Apsley, Victoria
Died7 August 1900(1900-08-07) (aged 35)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia
AllegianceColony of Victoria
Service / branchVictorian Military Forces
Years of service1900
RankSister
Battles / warsSecond Boer War

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.

Early life

Frances 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). 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.

Military service

In March 1900, Sister Hines was one of ten trained nurses who travelled on the Euryalus to South Africa with the Victorian Citizen Bushmen.

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). 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. 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.

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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