Ruth Ada Sanderson

Forenames

Ruth Ada AWMM

Surname

Sanderson AWMM

Service number

WWI 22/287 AWMM

Gender

Female AWMM

Birth

5 Oct 1882 AWMM
Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• C.J. Sanderson (father), Cheltenham, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• C.J. Sanderson (father), Cheltenham, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Charles John Sanderson (father), Cheltenham, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 25 Jan 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 22/287 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Nurse AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Matron/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 Hospital Ship No. 1, 2nd Voyage from NZ AWMM Vessel was Maheno AWMM Sister AWMM New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1, "Maheno" (Second Charter) New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps Ship's Staff AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW1 Hospital Ship No. 1, 3rd Voyage from NZ AWMM Vessel was Maheno AWMM Sister AWMM New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1, "Maheno" (Third departure from New Zealand), New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Sister AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Ruth Sanderson embarked three times: Roll 15 Page 2; Roll 29 Page 2; Roll 55 Page 27;

SuppNom: Ex "Maheno" Second Charter, SuppNom: Ex Hospital Ship “Maheno,” 2nd Charter.

Next of Kin: Mrs Quick, Hamilton, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

1928 AWMM
Age  45 AWMM

Cemetery

Hamilton Services Cemetery AWMM HEC-SLD1-D-168 AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East, 3216 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20809435
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880794
  Further Reference
• McNabb, S. (2022, April). New Zealand Army Nursing Service – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps. NZANS. Archived from the Wayback Machine on 26 January 2023.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20230126100532/https://www.nzans.org/
  Further Reference

References

• Tolerton, J. (2017). Make her praises heard afar : New Zealand women overseas in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Booklovers Books.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  15: 2
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  29: 2
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 27
• Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett.
• 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.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917
• Rogers, A. (2003). While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.