Ethel Mary Bage (1884–1943)
from Age
After an illness of many months, Miss Ethel Mary Bage died early yesterday morning at her home in Wellington-street, Kew. Miss Bage, who was the second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bage, was a graduate of the Melbourne University, and was the first president of the Australian Women Graduates' Association. Later she held office as honorary treasurer, a role she also filled for the Victorian Women Graduates' Association. She was also a council member of the University Women's College. Since the outbreak of war Miss Bage had been an active worker for the University women's patriotic fund, and she organised its successful waste products section. Up to some seven years ago she ran the Alice Anderson motor service, for many years the only garage and motor school to be owned and managed by a woman.
Original publication
Other Obituaries for Ethel Mary Bage
- Courier-Mail (Brisbane), 30 August 1943, p 2
Additional Resources
- is acting as honorary secretary for the Victorian committee of Dr Mawson's Antarctic expedition, Australasian (Melbourne), 27 May 1911, p 50
- leaves Melbourne for England next month, Australasian (Melbourne), 16 March 1912, p 42
- is leaving England next month on the trans-Siberian route for Korea with a friend who is going out as a missionary, Punch (Melbourne), 28 November 1912, p 28
- is appointed secretary of the newly formed Girls' Realm Guide, Leader (Melbourne), 18 July 1914, p 51
- Ethel and her mother have travelled to London to undertake war work, Herald (Melbourne), 23 January 1917, p 7
- Ethel is working in the Prisoner of War Department for Australians, Punch (Melbourne), 19 April 1917, p 26
- will remain in London working for the Red Cross while the need is still there, Week (Brisbane), 23 May 1919, p 5
- Ethel and her mother have been warmly welcomed back to Melbourne, Australasian (Melbourne), 17 January 1920, p 36
- is elected hon treasurer of the Victorian Women Graduates Association, Herald (Melbourne), 1 October 1921, p 15
- is a council member of the Victorian branch of the National Council of Women, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 15 September 1922, p 3
- is re-elected treasurer of the Victorian Women Graduates Assn, Argus (Melbourne), 18 October 1922, p 11
- photo, Brisbane Courier, 17 July 1923, p 14
- is to take over the running of Alice Anderson's garage, Brisbane Courier, 8 November 1926, p 19
- has driven from Melbourne to Canberra eleven times, Courier-Mail, 2 November 1933, p 20
- again drives from Melbourne to Brisbane, Telegraph (Brisbane), 4 July 1934, p 16
- photo, Courier-Mail (Brisbane), 9 August 1935, p 18
- the Victorian Women Graduates Assn endows a scholarship in her memory, Brisbane Telegraph, 17 April 1952, p 14
Related Entries in NCB Sites
- Bage, Marie Charlotte (mother)
- Bage, Edward (father)
- Bage, Anna Frederika (sister)
- Bage, Edward Frederick Robert (brother)
- Sachse, Frederica Alice (aunt)
- Bage, Charles (uncle)
- Sachse, Arthur Otto (uncle by marriage)
- Bage, Anna Newsom (grandmother)
- Bage, Edward (grandfather)
- Bage, Jessie Eleanor (cousin)
- Anderson, Alice Elizabeth (friend)
Citation details
'Bage, Ethel Mary (1884–1943)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/bage-ethel-mary-15690/text35262, accessed 6 October 2024.
Life Summary [details]
Birth
1884
St Kilda, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
Death
22 August,
1943
(aged ~ 59)
Kew, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
Education
- Oxford High School (UK)
- Clyde School (Woodend, Vic)
- Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
- University of Melbourne