Hilda Mary Steele

Forenames

Hilda Mary AWMM

Surname

Steele AWMM

Also known as

Mulcock AWMM

Service number

WWI 22/60 AWMM

Gender

Female AWMM

Birth

28 May 1887 AWMM

Date of birth

28th May 1887

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Place of birth

Wairoa, Hawkes Bay

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Address before enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Cricklewood, Arney Rd, Remuera, Auckland
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Post war occupation

• 20 Apr 1920 AWMM
  Sister AWMM
• Nurse
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Next of kin

WW1 T.J. Steele (father), Cricklewood, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 01 Apr 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 22/60 AWMM

Medals and Awards

Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 01 Apr 1915 AWMM
  Age  27 AWMM
• One of the first twelve NZ nurses selected to become part of the Australian Army Nursing Service in
  Public - Sue - Researcher - 24 January 2017 - McNabb, Sherayl. 100 years New Zealand Military Nursing. N Z Army Nursing Service - Royal N Z Nursing Corps 1915-2015. Wairoa, S McNabb,. p53.

Age on enlistment

27

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Occupation before enlistment

Nurse

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Embarkation details

• WW1 Ulimaroa 1 April 1915 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Nurse AWMM Australian Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM
• Australian hospital ship Kyarra to Egypt 13 April 1915, disembarking at Alexandria on May 28th 1915.
  Public - Sue - Researcher - 24 January 2017 - McNabb, Sherayl. 100 years New Zealand Military Nursing. N Z Army Nursing Service - Royal N Z Nursing Corps 1915-2015. Wairoa, S McNabb,. p55-57.

Death

25 Mar 1972 AWMM

Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery AWMM

Memorial name

New Zealand Returned Army Nursing Sisters Association (Auckland) honours board, RSA Onehunga, Auckland AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880934
  Further Reference
• Remuera Heritage
  http://www.remueraheritage.org.nz/people/ww1-hilda-mary-steele
  Further Reference
• Marriages and Engagements, Kai Tiaki: The Journal of the Nurses of New Zealand Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1923
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/KT19230701.2.55.2
  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
• National Archives of Australia. Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers 1914-1920. Series B2455
  Public - Sue - Researcher - 28 January 2017 - Military personnel file http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=11609811&isAv=N
• www.nzans.org
  Public - Sherayl - Researcher - 24 January 2015 - www.nzans.org

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.
• New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 689
• 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. 3: 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.
• 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. 167,169
• 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.
• Please note the New Zealand Army Nursing Service was not a Corps.
  Public - Sherayl - Researcher - 24 January 2015 - Rules and Regulations of the NZANS