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Edith Florence Avenell Edith Florence Avenell i(6112224 works by)
Born: Established: 1890 Gympie, Gympie area, Gympie - Cooloola - Tin Can Bay area, South East Queensland, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 1937
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Queenie : A Personal Snapshop of World War I through the Letters of a Queensland Army Nurse 1915-1917 Edith Florence Avenell , Anne Skinner (editor), Pat Richardson (editor), Sunnybank Hills : BookPal , 2013 6112298 2013 single work biography

'Queenie is the evocative, moving and at times entertaining story, told through her letters home, of a young Army nurse's perceptions of the events, people and places she experienced during the cataclysmic years of the First World War. Queensland's youngest hospital matron at the age of 25, Gympie-born Edith Florence Avenell, usually known by her nickname Queenie, enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service the day after the ANZAC troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli.'
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