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Letter from Dr Biffin to the Staff Officer for Invalids, Victoria Barracks, regarding the care of Private Godber, 4 November 1917

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National Archives of Australia
[Series B2455; Godber Andrew John; p 21 (Item barcode 4770202)]

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National Archives of Australia

Biffin, Harriett Eliza

Harriett Biffin was a pioneer Sydney woman doctor. One of the second group of women to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1898, she was the first to establish a women’s joint medical practice in Sydney and a suburban general medical practice, and founded both The Medical Women’s Society of New South Wales and the Rachel Forster Hospital with Dr Lucy Edith Gullett.

World War I

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Armed forces

Biffin, Harriet Eliza

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Medical practioner who was one of the first women medical graduates in the state. She worked tirelessly for the establishment of a hospital run for and by women.

Godber, Andrew John

Soldier in the AIF who was injured fighting in France during World War I. He was treated by Dr Harriett Biffin in Lindfield on his return to Australia. He had grown up in Delegate, near Monaro in regional New South Wales.

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Victoria Barracks

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Army quarters in Paddington with a range of sandstone buildings dating from 1841 to the Edwardian period, that comprise one of the best groups of colonial buildings in Sydney. The Barracks housed British soldiers until 1870 before occupation by colonial forces and the Australian Army.