Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson
Born 21 Jul 1881 - Died 23 Oct 1915
- Service number
- WWI 22/133 AWMM
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- Staff Nurse AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM
- War
About
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- Forenames
- Mabel Elizabeth AWMM
- Surname
- Jamieson AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Service number
- WWI 22/133 AWMM
- Gender
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 21 Jul 1881 BDM, births,
- Date of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Palmerston North Hospital, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Thomas Jamieson (father), Kumara, Westland, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 10 Jul 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
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- WWI 22/133 AWMM
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Military decorations
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Training and Enlistment
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 Hospital Ship No. 1, 1st Voyage from NZ AWMM Vessel was Maheno AWMM Nurse AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1, "Maheno" AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
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- Accidental Death, Cause of Death AWMM
Drowned AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- Staff Nurse AWMM
New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Mabel Jamieson was the daughter of Frances Jamieson and Thomas Jamieson, of Church St., Kumara, Greymouth.
She was one of the New Zealand nurses who died when the Marquette was torpedoed and sank in October 1915.
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. AWMM - I am writing a short family history of my Great Aunt, Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson, who drowned on the Marquette on 23 October 1915. I have a record of her birth date as 21 July 1881, Reg 2656 at Greymouth, NZ. One of my cousins, Lorna Wilson, a teacher at St Andrews, Christchurch, did an Ancestry search of the Jamieson and Wilson families in 1986. There is a picture of Mabel Jamieson in the book by Peter Rees, "The Other Anzacs, Nurses at War, 1914-18"Public - Lorraine - Other Relative - 10 February 2015 - Family papers; The Other Anzacs, Nurses at War, 1914-18 by Peter Rees, Allen & Unwin, 2008
- Mabel Jamieson was the daughter of Frances Jamieson and Thomas Jamieson, of Church St., Kumara, Greymouth.
About death
- Death
- 23 Oct 1915 AWMM
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- Cause of death
- Accidental Death AWMM
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Memorial
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- Mikra Memorial, Greece AWMM
- Nurses' Memorial Chapel, Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
- Memorial bed, 1916, Kumara Hospital, Westland AWMM
- Memorial window, Five Sisters Window, north transept, York Minster, York, England AWMM
- Kumara Memorial Hall, Seddon Street, Kumara, Westland District, New Zealand AWMM
- Family grave plot, Kumara Cemetery, Westland; Block 14, Plot 200.Public - Sarndra - 25 August 2024 - Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208682878/frances-jamieson; ancestry.co.uk, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60547/images/43391_344172__0009-00837 (paywalled).
- Scots Memorial Plaque, St Andrew's United Church (previously St Andrew's Scots Memorial Church), Hokitika.Public - Allan Kenneth - Researcher - 13 August 2021 - Scots Memorial Church, Hokitika https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/scots-memorial-church-hokitika
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18052954
Further Reference - Army General Staff file, Territorial Force 1915 - 1917
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22203692
Further Reference - Army General Staff file, Territorial Force 1915 - 1917
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22203692
Further Reference - 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/
Further Reference - 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 - Memorials. Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume IX, Issue 1, January 1916, Page 9
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=KT19160101.2.18&srpos
Further Reference - 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
Further Reference - Registration 7907
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/
Sources Used - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1647893/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1647893
Further Reference - https://ehive.com/collections/200188/objects/1074315/bed-plaque-commemorating-marquette-victim-mabelPublic - Nanette - 27 April 2023 - The memorial bed plaque is at the Nurses' Memorial Chapel, Christchurch
- Military personnel file
- 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: 364 - New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day
- 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.
- Rogers, A. (2003). While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.
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