217568 Matron Margaret Gray British Red Cross from:Australia Born in 1871, Margaret Gray trained at the Coast (later known as Prince Henry) Hospital in Sydney and ran a private hospital at Lismore before going abroad as a nurse with the British forces soon after the outbreak of war. She left Sydney for England in 1914, and was subsequently sent to France and attached to the British Red Cross Hospital in Rouen. As the only Australian sister attached to the hospital, for the first year, she was often asked by the commanding officer to attend to the Australian patients.
By the end of the war she had nearly five years' service and was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her valuable work. In 1920 she was appointed matron of Graythwaite Convalescent Hospital, North Sydney, and later matron at Cavell House, the rest home for trained nurses, a position she held until her death on 16th January 1933.
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