Since publishing Angels of Augustus by Stephanie Somerville, the surviving pioneer nurse, Sister Marjorie Wilkinson Somerville (who pioneered the Methodist Nursing Services in the Australian outback in 1946) has been delighted to meet fellow pioneer nurse, Sister Olive Crombie Smith. They met in March 2008, in Brisbane, after Marjorie moved to Queensland a few months earlier.
They struck up a lovely friendship immediately. Olive was thrilled to meet Marjorie, because she adapted Marj’s Newtown model to pioneer the Queensland Blue Nurses in 1953.
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