Ethel Mary Strachan

Forenames

Ethel Mary AWMM

Surname

Strachan AWMM

Service number

WWI 52 AWMM

Gender

Female AWMM

Birth

1884 AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 52 AWMM

Military service

• Hospital Ship Tahiti AWMM
• No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, Walton-on-Thames AWMM
• Anglo-Russian Hospital AWMM
• Galicia AWMM

Enlistment

Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM

Embarkation details

Sister AWMM Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Staff Nurse AWMM
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve AWMM

Death

20 Aug 1972 AWMM
Age  88 AWMM

Cemetery

Cremated at Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Memorial name

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

Related objects

External links

• Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium records
  http://www.purewa.co.nz/search.asp
  Sources Used
• Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium records
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220126041404/https://www.nzans.org/index.htm
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
• Mackrell, B. (n.d.). Papers. Auckland War Memorial Museum. MS 2003/107.
• 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. 218
• 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.