NEW ZEALAND NURSES
WORLD WAR ONE
JULY 1915
From - Evening Post (Wellington) - 6 July 1915 Page 8.
SERVICE ABROAD
New Zealand Nurses
Leaving by Hospital Ship
Names of those selected
Sixty-nine New Zealand nurses for service in the military hospitals in England are leaving
on Saturday in the Hospital Ship. This completes the quota of 100 which the Dominion was
asked to raise, and of which number 31 left on 21st May for service in Egypt and the Dardenelles.
The full list is as follows:
| ABBOTT | Fanny | Christchurch | Private Nursing |
| ALLEYNE | Mabel | Adelaide | Wanganui College School Nurse |
| ANSTEY | Winifred | Christchurch | Private Nursing |
| AUSTEN | Edith | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| BARNES | Ethel | Nelson | Westport Hospital Staff |
| BAYLEY | Violet R R | Auckland | Kawakawa Hospital Staff |
| BESWICK | Mary | Christchurch | St Helen's Hospital Trainee |
| BROWN | Marion | Riverton | Private Hospital Staff |
| CAMPBELL | A D | Christchurch | Matron Karitane Hospital |
| CARTER | Kathleen | Wellington | Wellington Hospital Staff |
| CLARK | Isabel | Oamaru | Private Nursing |
| CONDICK | Caroline | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| CUMMING | Kathleen | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| DONOGHUE | Catherine | Wanganui | Private Nursing |
| EDGERLEY | Haidee | Auckland | Auckland Hospital Staff |
| EDMONDSTONE | J M D | Wellington | Private Nursing |
| EDWIN | Jean | Christchurch | Private Nursing |
| ELLIS | Mildred | Wellington | Private Nursing |
| FOX | Catherine | Dunedin | Private Nursing |
| GARRARD | Gertrude | Launceston | Matron Townley Hospital |
| GRANT | Nellie | Dunedin | Private Nursing |
| HANAN | Eileen | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| HASTE | Maud | Christchurch | Christchurch Hospital Staff |
| HAWKEN | Ada G | Auckland | Matron Kawakawa Hospital |
| HILDYARD | Nora | Christchurch | Christchurch Hospital Staff |
| HOBBS | Mary | Wellington | Wellington Hospital Staff |
| HOLMWOOD | Aileen | Wellington | Private Nursing |
| HOOPER | Ethel | Nelson | Private Nursing |
| HORTON | Decima | Blenheim | Waipawa Hospital |
| ISDELL | Helene K | Kumara | Matron Kumara Hospital |
| JAMES | Jessie | Wellington | Private Nursing |
| JAMIESON | Mabel E | Palmerston North | Private Nursing |
| JEFFERY | Minnie | Dunedin | Private Nursing |
| KEYTE | Bessie | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| KITCHING | Katherine | Wellington | Private Hospital Staff |
| KITTELTY | Mabel | Greymouth | Private Nursing |
| LEVEIN | Rachael | Wanganui | Wanganui Hospital Staff |
| LONGMAN | Annie Louisa | Christchurch | Private Nursing |
| LOONEY | Mary | Southland | Matron Gore Hospital |
| MARTYN | Emma | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| McCANN | Susannah | Maryborough | Private Nursing |
| McCOSH-SMITH | Victoria | Naseby | Timaru Hospital Staff |
| McKAY | Annie J | Southland | Private Nursing |
| McLEAN | Beatrice C | Palmerston North | Private Nursing |
| METHERELL | Gladys | Christchurch | Private Nursing |
| MORRIS | Cecilia | Dunedin | Private Nursing |
| MUNRO | Isabella | Christchurch | St Helen's Hospital Trainee |
| MYLES | Eva | Edinburgh | Unoccupied |
| NEWELL | Lyna | Auckland | Te Kopuru Hospital Staff |
| NOONAN | Kathleen | Timaru | Private Nursing |
| O'CALLAGHAN | Ellen M | West Australia | Private Nursing |
| PATTERSON | Agnes | Gisborne | Private Nursing |
| PHILPOTTS | Alice | Wellington | Private Nursing |
| POPPLEWELL | Edith | Ballarat | Private Nursing |
| PORTEOUS | Elizabeth | Dannevirke | Private Nursing |
| RATTRAY | Lorna | Christchurch | Christchurch Hospital Staff |
| RAY | Mary Helen | Dunedin | Dunedin Hospital Staff |
| REYNOLDS | Emily | Mill-road Infirmary | Private Nursing |
| RHIND | Ruth | Riverton | Palmerston North Hospital Staff |
| ROGERS | Margaret | Christchurch | District Nursing |
| SMITH | Flora | Hawera | Private Nursing |
| STUBBS | Eliza D | Christchurch | Matron, Government Sanatorium, Hanmer |
| UTTING | Ruth | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| WALKER | Mary | Oamaru | Private Nursing |
| WARNER | Phoebe | Auckland | Private Nursing |
| WATT | Mary | Waikato | Private Nursing |
| WELCH | Kathleen | Wellington | Wellington Hospital Staff |
| WHITTA | Ada | Masterton | Private Nursing |
| WILLIS | Ida | Wellington | Military Nurse, Samoa |
| WILSON | Elizabeth | Timaru | St Helen's Hospital Trainee |
Hospital Ship Staff
In addition the following have been selected for the staff of the hospital ship:-