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DEATH OF
MISS E. BARRON
MISS ELLEN BARRON, whose death took place yesterday opened the first training school in child welfare nursing in Brisbane in 1923. The late Miss Barron, who was born in Berkshire, England, was educated at Oxford and  Queensland, and trained at the Brisbane General Hospital. In the 1914-18 war she was stationed at Lemnos during the landing at Gallipoli, and she also served in Egypt and France. On her return from active service, she was appointed to the Valley Centre of the Maternal and Child Welfare Services, and in 1922 she was sent to New Zealand for six months to study child welfare under Sir Truby King. In 1928 the late Miss Barron was appointed superintendent of nurses, Maternal and Child Welfare Service, and retired in 1939. She was associated with the A.T.N.A. Rest Home since its inception in 1924, and for some years was honorary secretary and a trustee.

BARRON.— Relatives and Friends of Mrs. A. S. Horneman (New Koreelah), Mrs. M. L. Black (Doomburra), Mrs. C. H. Bourne (Gatton), Misses A. and E. Barron (Gatton) are invited to attend the Funeral of their beloved Sister, Miss Ellen Maria Barron, to leave the Funeral Chapel, 17 Peel Street, South Brisbane, To-morrow (Tuesday) Morning, at 9.30 o'clock, for the Mt. Thompson Crematorium. Service at 9.15. JOHN HISLOP & SONS, Funeral Directors.

Born 1875 in Berkshire, England
Daughter of John Joseph BARRON and Annie nee COX
Of Oxley, Queensland
Aged 39 years
Enlisted 26 April 1915
Embarked 15 May 1915 per 'Mooltan' from Sydney
Served in Egypt and England
Returned to Australia 07 March 1917 to Brisbane per 'Kanowna'
Appointment terminated 18 April 1917
She died 8 July 1951 at the War Veterans' Home, Caboolture, Queensland.

Miss Barron was born in 1875 at Abingdon, Berkshire, England, daughter of John Joseph Barron, railway stationmaster, and his wife Annie, née Cox. Migrating to Queensland with her parents in or before 1884, she trained as a nurse at the Brisbane General Hospital in 1896-99 and was a staff nurse there until 1901. Head nurse at the Maryborough General Hospital in 1902-04, she trained in obstetrics at the Women's Hospital, Rockhampton, in 1904-05, and was matron of the Lady Musgrave Hospital, Maryborough, in 1906-08 and of the Chillagoe Hospital in 1909. She returned to England in 1912-13, won the certificate of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses, and became a life member of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics.

Late in 1914 Miss Barron returned to Australia and on 1 May 1915 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. As a staff nurse in the 3rd Australian General Hospital, she nursed Anzac casualties on Lemnos and served in England and France. Discharged on 18 April 1917, she began work in Brisbane in 1918 under Miss Chatfield in the baby clinics. Four years later she was sent to the Karitane training school in Dunedin, New Zealand, to work under (Sir Frederic) Truby King. On her return in 1923, she became superintendent of the baby clinics and started a training course for clinic nursing staffs. She retired as superintendent in 1939.

Australian Dictionary of Biography
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barron-ellen-5653