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Jeannie Gilruth formerly Jeannie McLean McKay was the founder and president of the Northern Territory division of the Australian Red Cross.

Gilruth convened and presided over the inaugural meeting of the Northern Territory division on 19 May 1915, at Government House in Darwin. It had a large attendance of local residents.

Gilruth worked diligently and tirelessly to develop the division and organise the the Red Cross services in the Northern Territory.

She married John Anderson Gilruth in Dunedin, New Zealand on 20 March 1899

In 1918 she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross Society.