Centaur Memorial Fund for Nurses

Fund for nurses to do PhDs, set up after AHS Centaur, with 12 nurses aboard, was torpedoed during World War 2 off the Queensland coast. Only 1 nurse survived.

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@QldGovernor Thank you for joining us your Excellency

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@QldGovernor Thank you Your Excellency for joining us at the 80th Annual Memorial Service and for your continued patronage of the @CMFN

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We were joined last night by Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM @QldGovernor at the United Services Club for the 80th Anniversary dinner commemorating 80 years since the sinking of the 2/3 AHS Cetaur Hospital Ship and 75years since establishment of the CMFN.

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79th Anniversary of the sinking of the 2/3 AHS Centaur. Remembering and honouring the sacrifice of the Nurses and all on board. @QldGovernor Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young joined us along with the Honourable Martin Daubney ACU Chancellor. Lest we forget.

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9th Nurses Memorial Candlelight Vigil ANZAC Square Brisbane. Lest We Forget

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We are so pleased to announce that the 21st Queensland Greats Awards presented June 8 at the Queensland Art Gallery by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk included our own Pixie Annat MBE OAM seen her with her great friend Kay McGrath at the presentation night

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4am May 14th 1943 2/3 AHS Centaur was torpedoed off the coast of Queensland. 268 died including 11 of the 12 nurses. Today we were joined by His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey and family of those lost to remembered them. @QldGovernor

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@QldGovernor Thank you foe joining us

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Centaur Exhibition Curator's Tour in Victoria. The CMFN small stained glass window usually in display at QUT is included and a couple of other things CMFN provided.

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If you get a chance to go to Melbourne the display is open until April 2022

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The AHS Centaur background.
Initially a comfortable passenger and freight ship, the AHS Centaur was converted to a hospital ship when war was declared. (Resourced with 900 blankets; 340 mattresses (hair); 400 pillows (hair); 600 pillows (feather); and 3000 sheets

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On 13 Feb1948, QLD citizens established a Memorial to commemorate the splendid services rendered by our Nurses in World Wars I and II, on the Home Front". (source: Madonna Grehan, 2018). This the 1948 Appeal Badge. @CMFN1943 still fund raise today stay tuned for our event

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Life savers: the Australian nurses who went to Vietnam

[Judith Dean @jdean4atUQ]

Life savers: the Australian nurses who went to Vietnam https://t.co/zsbxjy3GVU

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Life savers: the Australian nurses who went to Vietnam https://t.co/60VBl2bb1W

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Centaur shrine at Point Danger. lest we forget

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Congratulations from all your co Centaur Fellows and friends. A wonderful achievement. @bgillespie6

[Griffith University Nursing & Midwifery @GriffithNursing]

@GriffithNursing Professor Brigid Gillespie @bgillespie6 has been recognised for her contribution to #NursingResearch as one of only 19 nurse researchers worldwide inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2020.
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@GriffithNursing @bgillespie6 Congratulations