| Ada Rundell | |
| Birth Name: | Ada Sophia Rundell |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1876 |
| Birth Place: | Ballarat, Australia |
| Death Date: | 1936 |
| Death Place: | Brisbane |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Known For: | Promoting physiotherapy in the Australian army |
| Relations: | William Rundell (father) |
| Profession: | Physiotherapist |
Ada Sophia Rundell (1 January 1876 - 1936), was an Australian physiotherapist who before the First World War promoted the use of physiotherapy by the military, and who subsequently served with the Australian Imperial Force in France and England during the conflict.[1] [2]
Ada Sophia Rundell was born on 1 January 1876 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, to William Reeve Rundell and his wife Agnes.[3]
She gained the Australasian Massage Association's qualification.[3]
In 1921 she married a soldier 12 years elder to her and who was suffering from tuberculosis. He died two years later.[4]
Rundell died in Wynnum, a suburb of Brisbane, in 1963.[3] Her life was selected to be part of the East Melbourne Historical Society's Great War project.[4]
