Pattie Menzies was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 New Year's Honours. Citation - "In recognition for her years of incessant and unselfish performance of public duty in hospital work, in visiting, addressing and encouraging many thousands of women in every State of Australia, including very remote areas and in the distinguished representation of Australia on a number of occasions overseas."
She was known as Dame Pattie Menzies, not as Lady Menzies, even though her husband had been knighted in 1963.
She died aged 96 years.
Pattie Menzies was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 New Year's Honours. Citation - "In recognition for her years of incessant and unselfish performance of public duty in hospital work, in visiting, addressing and encouraging many thousands of women in every State of Australia, including very remote areas and in the distinguished representation of Australia on a number of occasions overseas."
She was known as Dame Pattie Menzies, not as Lady Menzies, even though her husband had been knighted in 1963.
She died aged 96 years.
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