Born in 1887 at Scarsdale, Victoria, Annie Dunbar Dorrington was one of three daughters of John Dorrington and Annie/Ann Kathleen née Young.
Annie completed 3 years of Nurses training at the Daylesford Hospital prior to her enlistment as Staff Nurse with the Australian Army Medical Corps. She was 29 years old and living at the Trained Nurses Club, Londsdale Street, Melbourne when she enlisted on 11 June, 1917, embarking from Melbourne on 30 June, 1917 aboard the Somali and arriving in Bombay, India on 30 July, 1917. She was immediately posted for duty at the Victorian War Hospital in Bombay. On 14 August, 1917 Annie was transferred to the Colaba War Hospital, Bombay, where she remained for the next six months. Annie was transferred once again and on 19 February, 1918 she began nursing at the King George's War Hospital, Poona, India.
She returned to Australia from Bombay on 28 February 1919 per City of Cairo and discharged on 21 August 1919.
Annie married Arthur Whitman Emery on 7 October, 1919 at Hawksburn, Victoria.
Annie died on 26 June 1967 in North Adelaide, South Australia and was cremated at Centennial Park Cemetery, Marryatville, City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, South Australia. She is commemorated at the Kensington St. Matthews Anglican Cemetery.