Objects of Substance – OGA Honour Board

1914 AANS Sign-on papers for Gertrude Jessie Andrews — Gertrude was at Girls Grammar from 1896 to 1897

1908 Sr Grace Wilson (1898)

Also on the honour board is the name of one of Girls Grammar’s most illustrious past students, Grace Wilson (1898). Her name is celebrated under the 1914 to 1918 list. In 1915, Grace Wilson departed on the SS Mooltan for Lemnos, an island situated in the Aegean Sea off Greece, where she was appointed Principal Matron of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. She went on to nurse at Abbasia (Cairo), London, and in France on the Somme. Her service would not end with the First World War. During World War II, Grace was posted to the Middle East. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal First Class, Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire and the Florence Nightingale Medal.