Catherine Anne Fox

Died 23 Oct 1915

Service number: WWI 22/118 AWMM
Also known as: Anne AWMM
Armed force / branch: Army AWMM
Last rank: WW1 Staff Nurse AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM
War: World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Catherine Anne Fox — Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915 - No known copyright restrictions No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Biographical information

Catherine Fox was the sister of Miss M. Fox, of Hallenstein's Buildings, Auckland. Born at Otago.

Trained as a nurse in Dunedin.

Served in Egypt

Catherine Fox was one of the New Zealand nurses who died when the Marquette was torpedoed and sank in October 1915.

Auckland War Memorial Museum Scars on the Heart WWI "Nurses and Volunteers" display. Display item is a Roll of Honour of Nurses who died while on active service.

Name Anne on the Roll of Honour. The Marquette was a British Merchant ship of 7,057 tons. It sank when a torpedo launched from a submarine hit it 36 miles south of Salonica Bay. Twenty nine crew and 182 troops were lost. Ten of those who died were New Zealand nurses who had been working at No.1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital in Port Said in October 1915 when they were ordered to prepare to go to Lemnos. The hospital was to be set up there to care for casualties being brought back from the Dardanelles. The Transport Ship Marquette took on board officers and men of the New Zealand Medical Corps, 36 New Zealand Army Nursing Staff, 610 officers and men of 29th Divisional Ammunition Column , 541 mules and some ammunition in mid October sailed for Salonika. The French torpedo destroyer Tirailleur joined the convoy on 22 October which gave credence to the idea that there was a real danger of being attacked by German submarines in the Mediterranean. The torpedo destroyer left the convoy that night and at 9.15 am on 23 October the Marquette was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side and began to list. Within about 15 minutes she sank. Nurses lost their lives in the evacuation as lifeboats tipped over as they were lowered into the sea, some boats falling on others, with some being left on the ship and going down with her. In Egypt there were two New Zealand Hospitals (No.1 and 2 NZ Stationary Hospitals and one Convalescent Hospital (Aotea Convalescent Hospital) in Cairo.

Next of Kin: Miss M. Fox, 19 H. B. Bldgs, Queen St, Auckld. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Sources

External links: Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21004502
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Other military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879981
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Rogers, A. (2006, 27 October). In Loving Memory: The Nurses’ Memorial Chapel, Christchurch, New Zealand. The New Zealand Medical Journal. Vol 119, no. 1244.
http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/119-1244/2292/
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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
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York Minster, Five Sisters Window. In memory of overseas nurses. (1925, 3 July). Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, p. 140.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=KT19250701.2.44&srpos
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Sister Catherine Fox potrait (Waimate Museum & Archives Catalogue No. 2002-1026-06103)
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3188/object/529648/Sister_Catherine_Anne_Fox
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Nurse Fox Sympathy card (Waimate Museum & Archives Catalogue No. 1990-034-00909/001)
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3188/object/550728
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Plaque (Waimate Museum & Archives Catalogue No. 2015-004-004/5)
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3188/object/550124
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SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=1435
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A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1647826/-
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1647826
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Wikidata Entity
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24846094
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Wikidata Entity
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24846094
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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. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 242
New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day
Tolerton, J. (2017). Make her praises heard afar : New Zealand women overseas in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Booklovers Books.
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.
Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 1: Includes portrait
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.
Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 4: Includes portrait
Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
Rogers, A. (2003). While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.

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