Mabel Helen Whishaw

Forenames

Mabel Helen AWMM

Surname

Whishaw AWMM

Service number

WWI 22/371 AWMM

Gender

Female AWMM

Birth

26 Mar 1884 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Whishaw (mother), Featherston, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 22/371 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Nurse AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 Staff Nurse AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died from influenza and broncho pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sister AWMM
New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM

Mabel Whishaw was the daughter of John Hanley and Catherine Elizabeth Whishaw of Stoneridge, Featherston, New Zealand.

Three children enlisted and died; Mabel (22/371), and brothers Bernard Guthrie (WW1 11/1996) and Harry Guthrie (WW1 10/154).

She served in New Zealand, Home Service at Featherston Camp.

Staff Nurse April 1918.

Promoted to rank of Sister 12 April 1918.

Next of Kin: Died in Camp (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

10 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  34 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Featherston Cemetery, Western Lake Road, Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM 85 AWMM

Memorial name

• Memorial window, Five Sisters Window, north transept, York Minster, York, England AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military Funerals. Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 1, January 1919, Page 10
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=KT19190101.2.17&srpos
  Further Reference
• Soldiers' Deaths. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 120, 16 November 1918, Page 8
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19181116.2.51&srpos
  Further Reference
• Memorial: Five Sisters Window. Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 3, July 1925, Page 140
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=KT19250701.2.44&srpos
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7881135
  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
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Featherston Cemetery War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/featherston-cemetery-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643573/-
  Further Reference
• User submission, Tweet from @war_fallen posted 10 November 2019
  http://twitter.com/war_fallen/statuses/1193431493680549888
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643573
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

References

• The Evening Post
• Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.: Watkins.
• 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.
• 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.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• 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.