Nellie Gould

Ellen Julia Gould, known as Nellie Gould, was a Welsh-born Australian nurse, born on 29 March 1860 and died on 19 July 1941. She was the first lady superintendent of the Army Nursing Service Reserve attached to the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, appointed in 1899, and she filled that role during the Second Boer War. With Sister Julia Bligh Johnston she ran Ermelo Private Hospital at Newtown in Sydney for several years. In the First World War she served as matron of No. 2 Australian General Hospital, in Egypt and then in France. She received the Royal Red Cross in 1916 and was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001, after her death. Her wartime service was also dramatised in the 2014 miniseries ANZAC Girls, in which she was played by Rhondda Findleton.