Due to her husband's governing appointments, Strickland lived in the Leeward Islands from 1902, Tasmania, Australia from 1904, Western Australia from 1909, before arriving in Sydney in 1913. In Sydney she lived in
Cranbrook in Rose Bay, and then
Government House on Macquarie St until 1917 while her husband was the Governor of New South Wales. When
World War I broke out in August 1914,
Lady Helen Munro Ferguson wrote to Strickland, making her a member of the central branch of the Australian Red Cross, which Ferguson had formed in response to the war. Ferguson also invited Strickland to form and preside over the New South Wales division as its president. Under her direction, Strickland's residences, first
Cranbrook in Rose Bay, and then
Government House on Macquarie St, Sydney became war working centres. The women who volunteered took over the supper room for daily meetings, and organising material goods for wounded soldiers. Strickland inspired the name of the
Lady Edeline Ferry, one of four ferries named for the wives of New South Wales Governors. She also had a children's hospital named in her honour, the Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies, in the historic
Greycliffe House in Nielsen Park, Vaucluse. She also had geographic features named after her, such as Lady Edeline Beach on Rottnest Island, and the
Edeline Islands in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. == Death ==