Constance Keys
Constance Keys | |
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| File:Constance Mabel Keys.jpg Keys in 1914, before embarking for overseas service | |
| Birth name | Constance Mabel Keys |
| Born | 30 October 1886 |
| Died | 17 March 1964 (aged 77) |
| Allegiance | Australia |
| Branch | Australian Imperial Force |
| Service years | 1914–1919 |
| Rank | Head Sister |
| Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Royal Red Cross Mentioned in Despatches (2) Military Health Service honour medal (France) |
| Relations | James Keys (father) Margaret Thorsborne (daughter) |
Constance Mabel Kemp-Pennefather, RRC (née Keys; 30 October 1886 – 17 March 1964) was a decorated Australian nurse of the First World War. She was mentioned twice in despatches, was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class and the French Military Health Service honour medal.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Keys was born in Mount Perry, a small town in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, the seventh child of Irish immigrant James Keys, a schoolteacher and botanist, and his wife Margaret. Trained at the Brisbane General Hospital as a nurse, she enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in September 1914 and was posted to the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was sent first to Egypt, later travelling onto Britain and then to France. She married Lionel Hugh Kemp-Pennefather on 3 December 1921, and was the mother of Australian naturalist and conservationist Margaret Thorsborne.[1][2]
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- 1886 births
- 1964 deaths
- Australian military nurses
- Australian military personnel of World War I
- Australian women nurses
- Female nurses in World War I
- World War I nurses
- Members of the Royal Red Cross
- Australian women of World War I
- Women in the Australian military
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