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Mabel Ethelind Brooke-Smith

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mabel Ethelind AWMM
  • Surname
    Brooke-Smith AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Younghusband AWMM
  • Service number
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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    South Africa Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    South Africa, Africa AWMM
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  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Trained Christchurch, Passage paid by passenger; travelled to England from Durban on HS Orcana December 1901

    Arrived Durban, March 1900 AWMM

Death

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    7 December 1968 AWMM
    Age 92 AWMM
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Sources

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  • References
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • Stowers, R. (2002). Rough Riders at War: history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902 and information on all members of the ten New Zealand contingents. Author: Hamilton, N.Z. AWMM
      (6th ed.) AWMM
    • Reference File. Women's Archive. Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM
      Newspaper clippings (1) 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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