Bertha Grace Nurse
I whānau mai i te 1871 - I mate atu i te 20 Dec 1960
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 22/1 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- NZ Army Nursing ServicesPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Inter War Matron/Military AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Bertha Grace AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Nurse AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 22/1 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 1871 Public Source
- Rā i whānau mai ai
- 1871Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Miltiary record & Research
- Wāhi Whānau
- Southland, NZPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Miltiary record & Research
- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
- Daughter of William Hugh NURSE & Alice Louisa nee' PRICEPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Miltiary record & Research
- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Unknown AWMM Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
- Hospital, Masterton/Civilian AWMM
- 1918-1919 - at Trentham Hospital; 1920 Rotorua King George; 1923 Gisborne HospitalPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Miltiary record & Research
- Uri kiritahi
- Mrs Eustace Russell, care of Russell and Sons, Barristers, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Pre 08 Apr 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- Samoa AWMM
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- NZ Army Nursing ServicesPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 22/1 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- Matron of Brockenhurst Military Hospital AWMM
- Matron of the Pont de Koubbeh Hospital Egypt AWMM
- Maunganui, returned to NZ on duty (in charge) as Matron AWMM
- 1914-1920Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
- Royal Red Cross (RRC) AWMM
- Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
Mentioned in Despatches by Lieut-Gen Sir J G Maxwell 3rd Supp London Gazette 20.6.1916 p#05 AWMM - Brought to notice of the Secretary of State for War (S.) AWMM
Bought to the notice of The Secretary of State for War for valuable nursing services rendered in connection with the war ~ extract from communiqué of 19th August 1919. AWMM - 1914-1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Royal Red Cross (RRC) 1916
Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) 1916
Secretary of State of War Certificate (SSW) 1919Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
- 1904 B Nurse passed the State Examination of Nurses having done her training in WellingtonPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1
- 11 Aug 1914 at Wellington (with the NZ Medical Corps # 3/73 for services at Apia)Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
- 43 yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record
- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
- Nurse at Wellington HospitalPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Miltiary record & Research
Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 08 Apr 1915-18 May 1915 AWMM
Rotorua 8 April 1915 AWMM Vessel was Rotorua AWMM Assistant Matron/Military AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM - 12 Aug 1914 embarked on the 'Monowai' for SamoaPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Research
- WW1 08 Apr 1915-18 May 1915 AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
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Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Inter War 1 Feb 1920 AWMM Matron/Military AWMM
New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Bertha Grace Nurse was born in Invercargill and trained as a nurse in New Zealand. Before World War I she worked at Wellington Hospital.
In August 1914, Nurse was appointed Matron and placed in charge of the group of New Zealand nurses selected at short notice to accompany the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Advance Party to German Samoa. The original nursing contingent comprised Nurse, Evelyn Brooke, Vida MacLean, Fanny Wilson, Louise Brandon and Louise McNie; Ida Grace Willis joined them in Fiji. Nurse travelled aboard Monowai with MacLean and McNie.
Following the New Zealand occupation of German Samoa, the nurses worked at the hospital in Apia, taking over from the German nursing staff. As Sister-in-Charge, Nurse was responsible for the work of the New Zealand nurses during their time in Samoa.
Nurse served in Samoa from August 1914 until March 1915. After returning briefly to New Zealand, she embarked for Egypt in April 1915 and continued nursing overseas. During 1915 and 1916 she held senior nursing responsibilities and served as a Matron in New Zealand military hospitals in Egypt. She was later attached to No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst, England. By early 1917 she had completed more than two years of continuous overseas service and was granted six months’ leave.
For her wartime nursing, Nurse was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class. She was the first New Zealand nurse during World War I to receive the Royal Red Cross, First Class. She was also Mentioned in Despatches.
Nurse returned to New Zealand in 1917 and continued working in military hospitals. In August she was appointed Matron of Trentham Military Hospital. In 1919 she transferred to King George V Military Hospital at Rotorua, where she continued as Matron.
In 1920 Nurse left military nursing to take up the position of Matron of Masterton Civil Hospital. Correspondence from King George V Military Hospital records her departure from Rotorua to take up the Masterton appointment.
Bertha Grace Nurse died on 20 December 1960. AWMM - Her sister was Frances Louiza NURSE (NZANS # 22/365)
Her brother was Charles Edward NURSE (of Waipiro Bay) - SA War: Cpl # 676, 3rd Contingent & Sgt # 11/1841 WMRPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Research
- Bertha Grace Nurse was born in Invercargill and trained as a nurse in New Zealand. Before World War I she worked at Wellington Hospital.
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 20 Dec 1960 AWMM
Age 89 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Ruru Lawn Cemetery, off Ruru Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM Bl 1C Pl 176NWC AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21381236
Further Reference - Wikipedia Entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Grace_Nurse
Further Reference - Elborough, Sophie. New Zealand Nurses in Samoa. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 5 April 2024.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/new-zealand-nurses-in-samoa
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- 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 Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 545 - 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.
- Colin M. Gordon Album (1915-1918). Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira PH-ALB-376.
- Unknown, photographer (1915-1916). [Agnes (Peggy) Williams photograph album]. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira PH-2017-2-3.
- 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. 5: Includes portrait - Tolerton, J. (2017). Make her praises heard afar : New Zealand women overseas in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Booklovers Books.
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