KELLETT, ADELAIDE MAUD (1873-1945), hospital matron, was born on 1 September 1873 at Raglan near Bathurst, New South Wales, daughter of Charles Henry Kellett, post office clerk, and his wife Sarah, née McClintock. Maud Kellett entered Sydney Hospital as a probationer in January 1898 and was granted her certificate in September 1901. From October 1910 she was deputy to Rose Creal. She joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1907 and embarked with 'Nellie' (Ellen Julia) Gould in October 1914, having enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in September. She was theatre sister with the 2nd Australian General Hospital, Cairo, for ten months, served on the hospital ship Gascon during the Gallipoli evacuation, and on return to Egypt became temporary matron of Choubra Military Infectious Hospital. In August 1916 as matron she opened the 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Southall, England, where work with limbless patients was satisfying and her ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography