Forenames

Lily AWMM

Surname

Lind AWMM

Gender

Female AWMM

Birth

1882 AWMM

Date of birth

13 June 1882

Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - Family files

Place of birth

Southland, New Zealand

Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - Family Files

Birth notes

Possibly at Clyde Street Hospital Invercargill. Her brother Alexander born at Clyde Street Hospital.

Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - New Zealand Government records

Post war occupation

Nurse

Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - Family files

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Pullmonary tuberculosis AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sister AWMM
French Flag Nursing Corps AWMM

Death

21 Nov 1916 AWMM

Age at death

34

Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - Family records

Place of death

Off the Coast of Colombo, Celyon on the Ship "Maheno"

Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - Obituary, Kai Tiaki Publication, January 1917, Page 65,

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Death notes

Published obituary
We regret exceedingly to record the death of Sister Lily Lind, a nurse well know

Public - David - Researcher - 24 March 2015 - Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume X, Issue 1, January 1917, Page 65

Memorial name

• Memorial window, Five Sisters Window, north transept, York Minster, York, England AWMM
• Name included on Invercargill Cenotaph, Corner, Dee and Gala Streets, Invercargill. Listed as "L. Lind"
  Public - Myles - Other relative - 8 September 2018 - Site Visit to Cenotaph in Invercargill

Related objects

External links

• Base records file 1916 - 1917
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21046254
  Further Reference
• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• New Zealand Military Nursing: New Zealand Army Nursing Service - Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220126041404/https://www.nzans.org/index.htm
  Further Reference
• Memorial: Five Sisters Window. Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 3, July 1925, Page 140
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=KT19250701.2.44&srpos
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day
• McNabb, S. (2015). 100 years New Zealand military nursing : New Zealand Army nursing service : Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, 1915-2015. Hawke's Bay, N.Z.: Sherayl McNabb.
• Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
  p. 54, 175-6
• Information kindly provided by family
• Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
• Tolerton, J. (2017). Make her praises heard afar : New Zealand women overseas in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Booklovers Books.
• Rogers, A. (2003). While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.