Showing posts with label women drivers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women drivers. Show all posts

Friday, 18 March 2011

Women ambulance drivers

1941. Saturday 20 December 40 young Geelong women registered as emergency Ambulance drivers & the majority had already obtained their transport license. (The Argues, Saturday 20 December 1941, p. 2)

Dr. Mary Clementina De Garis

1916 (approx.). Dr Mary Clementina De Garis (1881-1963)
Geelong’s first female medical practitioner and the first woman doctor to drive a car around Geelong. She pioneered feeding high protein diets to pregnant women.