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Flora Cameron

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Flora Jean Cameron OBE OStJ (24 December 1902 – 13 January 1966) was a New Zealand nurse, nursing instructor and administrator.

Biography

She was born in Richmond, New Zealand, on 24 December 1902.[1]

She did her midwifery training at the Auckland St Helens Hospital.[1]

Cameron was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal in 1953, appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 Queen's Birthday Honours, and received the Florence Nightingale Medal from the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1959.[1] The following year she was made an Officer of the Order of St John.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Stevenson, Annette. "Flora Jean Cameron". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.


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