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Mary Christina Lowe

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Notable Events in Nursing History - The First Fifty Nurses sent with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces [April 1915]. Archives New Zealand R13235489. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mary Christina AWMM
  • Surname
    Lowe AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 22/35 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    15 August 1884 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Dannevirke, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs A.E. Lowe, Otahuna, Tai Tapu, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 8 April 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/35 AWMM
  • Military service
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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    WW1 13 July 1917 AWMM
    Posted to Retired List AWMM
    Staff Nurse AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Serial Number is recorded as 22/26 on Nominal Roll, 22/35 on Archives New Zealand

    Mary Christina Lowe, 22/35, was born on 15 August 1884 (not 1888) at Waimate, as recorded in her personnel file at Archway and confirmed by the birth registration at NZ Historical Records (Department of Internal Affairs). AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    5 April 1963 AWMM
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Memorial

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  • Mary Christina Lowe, 22/35, was born on 15 August 1884 (not 1888) at Waimate, as recorded in her personnel file at Archway and confirmed by the birth registration at NZ Historical Records (Department of Internal Affairs). She died on 5 April 1963 (not 1937) at Christchurch, as recorded in her personnel file at Archway and confirmed by the death registration at NZ Historical Records (Department of Internal Affairs). She was still very active in the 1930s at Hamilton (source - my research). She lived in retirement at Christchurch, Her next-of-kin at death was one of her sisters.
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Sources

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  • References
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • New Zealand Gazette AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 427 AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • Unknown, photographer (1915-1916). [Agnes (Peggy) Williams photograph album]. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira PH-2017-2-3. AWMM

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