Hilda Theresa Riddervold Samsing (1870–1957) was born at Åsgårdstrand, Norway. Her father, a fisherman, died at sea when she was four. The family emigrated to South Australia in the early 1880s before settling in rural Victoria. Samsing began her nursing career as a ward maid at Melbourne Hospital, trained there as a nurse, and rose to the rank of Matron-in-Charge at the Lonsdale House Clinic in Melbourne.
In 1914 she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service and sailed with the First Convoy aboard HMAT Benalla. Over four years of service she nursed in Egypt, France and England, and served on a hospital ship during the Gallipoli campaign. She was returned to Australia in October 1918 due to failing health and a shoulder injury, and was discharged from the AANS in March 1919.
After the war Samsing managed the Mount Buffalo Ski Chalet in the Victorian Alps, where she promoted skiing and ice skating. She later ran a bed and breakfast hotel at Mordialloc, Melbourne. She died on 23 March 1957 at Mount Strickland, Victoria.
