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Caroline Mary Wallace

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Nominal Roll Vol 4 (Roll 90), Page: 10 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 4 (Roll 90), Page: 10 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Caroline Mary AWMM
  • Surname
    Wallace AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Findlay AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/550 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 March 1882 AWMM Dunedin, Otago AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
    daughter of James WALLACE & Emily Grace nee' DAVIES Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 9 August 1918 AWMM C/o Mrs Euphemia Grace Haig (sister), 35 Newport Street, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Officer of the Education Department at Invercargill Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Euphemia Grace Haig (sister), 35 Newport Street, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 17 August 1918 AWMM Single AWMM
    • 1925 married Albert Walker FINDLAY Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - Military Record & Research

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards
    British War Medal Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - Military Record

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1917 passed the Examination of Nursing having done her training at the Gisborne Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - NZANS website
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    • WW1 9 August 1918 AWMM
      Age 35 AWMM
      Nurse AWMM
    • at Wellington Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - Miltiary record
  • Occupation before enlistment
    1916 Nurse at Gisborne Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Height, Unknown Period AWMM
      5 foot 2 inches AWMM
    • Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
      106 pounds AWMM
    • Dental, Unknown Period AWMM
      Upper artificial AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Daughter of Emily Grace Wallace and James Wallace.

    Wife of Albert Walker Findlay, married registered 1925.

    Trained at Cook Hospital, Gisborne.

    Nursing as Sister at Timaru Hospital before enlistment. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    8 October 1948 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
    67yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 November 2016 - BMD NZ Records
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Bromley, Christchurch Public - elli - 24 January 2015 - Archives NZ Wellington - CWGC (Non-war grave card index)
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      90: 10 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

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
09 November 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher
24 January 2015elliWellingtonOther

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