Jessie Bicknell ARRC was a nurse and health administrator. She served in World War I and was an Associate of the Royal Red Cross. Jessie helped establish postgraduate and specialist training for nurses.
In 1915 Jessie was made deputy matron in chief of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. It was for this work that became an Associate of the Royal Red Cross leading to her later activities with the Overseas Women War Workers’ Association.
After the war became director of the Division of Nursing in the Department of Health, and matron in chief of the armed services. She was the first New Zealand-born director of nursing.
Jessie Bicknell
Died 1956
Block J, Row 09, 055
IMAGE: Auckland Regional Office, Archives New Zealand – Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, School of Nursing photographs Reference: BAOE A727 4507 Box 7 d via TEARA
