Woman of the Day Phoebe Chapple born OTD 1879 in Adelaide, the first Australian and the only woman doctor to be awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the field.
Phoebe’s upbringing was affluent – she sometimes visited her patients in a phaeton driven by a liveried coachman… pic.twitter.com/C74c914XLN
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