work: Flora Reid – Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) – inaugural recipient – for aiding convalescent soldiers Vera Deakin – Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) – for establishing the Australian Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau Sister Clare Deacon, Sister Dorothy Cawood, Sister Alice Ross-King, Staff Nurse Mary Derrer – Military Medal – for bravery rescuing patients from a burning building Sister Pearl Corkhill – Military Medal Sister Rachel Pratt – Military Medal Sister Alicia Mary Kelly – Military Medal Opposition A number of Australian women opposed the war, or certain aspects of it. Australian pacifists and anti-conscription activists during this period included Bella Guerin and Doris Blackburn. Notable Australian women involved in the war References External links Frances, Rae: Women’s Mobilisation for War (Australia), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Further reading Adam-Smith, Patsy. Australian Women At War, Penguin, Melbourne, 1996 Barker, Marianne. Nightingales in the Mud, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989 Bassett, Jan. Guns and Brooches, Oxford Melbourne, 1992 Beaumont, Joan, ed. Australia’s War 1914-18, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995 Beaumont, Joan. "Whatever happened to patriotic women, 1914–1918?." Australian Historical Studies 31.115 (2000): 273-286. Cochrane, Peter. Australians At War, (ABC Books, Melbourne, 2001). Coates, Donna. "Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Women’s Fictional Responses to the Great War." in P. Quinn and S. Trout, eds. The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. 113-142). De Vries, Susanna. Heroic Australian women in war: astonishing tales of bravery from Gallipolli to Kokoda. (HarperCollins, 2004. ). Fallows, Carol. Love and War, (Bantam Books, Sydney, 2002). Kretzenbacher, Heinz L. "The forgotten German-Australian stories of Australian history: Lesbia Harford’s The Invaluable Mystery and the predicament of German-Australians in the First World War." Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies (2014) 7:45-77 online McKernan, Michael. The Australian People and the Great War (Nelson, Melbourne, 1980). Oppenheimer, Melanie. "‘The best PM for the empire in war'?": Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the Australian Red Cross Society, 1914–1920." Australian Historical Studies 33.119 (2002): 108-134. Oppenheimer, Melanie. Australian Women and War (Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra, 2008). Oppenheimer, Melanie. Oceans of Love. Narrelle - An Australian Nurse in World War I, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006 Reid, Richard. Just Wanted To Be There, (Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra, 1999). Scates, Bruce. "The