Death Of Miss Gertrude
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Faddy
Miss Gertrude Faddy, Rrc, Who
was Sister-in-charge of the Memo rial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, for 11 years, died of pneumonia at the hospital on June 14. She was born at Taree, NSW, 61 years ago, and followed the profession of nursing all her life. She went first to Fiji in 1906 and later nursed in Eng land, Singapore, Philippines, and Hono lulu. During the First World War she served in France and England with the Lady Dudley Red Cross Unit and it was for this work that she was awarded the Royal Red Cross, conferred on women for outstanding acts of mercy in attend ing the sick and wounded in time of war. She returned to Fiji in 1932 and had lived there since.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. E.
J. Williams, of Tailevu, and Mrs. W. B, Rodd, of Sydney; and two brothers, Mr.
Frank Faddy, of Suva, and Mr. Herbert Faddy, of Vatukoula.
The Rev. F. J. Searle, of the LMS, who was stationed at Lawes College, Papua, for 17 years, is at present interim minis ter of the Congregational Church, Can berra.