# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alice-ross-king
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:03.139Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alice-ross-king"
name: "Alice Ross-King"
slug: "alice-ross-king"
description: "Alys Appleford,, known as Alice Ross-King, was an Australian civilian and military nurse who took part in both World Wars. She has been described as Australia's most decorated woman. During the First World War she served in hospitals in Egypt and France and was one of only seven Australian nurses to be awarded the Military Medal for gallantry. In the Second World War she held a senior post within the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. In 1949 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award made by the International Committee of the Red Cross."
tagline: "Australian military nurse (1887–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alice_Ross-King.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1887-08-05"
deathDate: "1968-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.010368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Еліс Росс-Кінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ross-Kingov%C3%A1"
    title: "Alice Ross-Kingová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ross-King"
    title: "Alice Ross-King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ross-King"
    title: "Alice Ross-King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ալիս Ռոս-Քինգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ross-King"
    title: "Alice Ross-King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81-%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Росс-Кинг, Элис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ross-King"
    title: "Alice Ross-King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21078517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump