Marion Sinclair Brown
Born 6 Oct 1880 - Died 23 Oct 1915
- Service number
- WWI 22/104 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Staff Nurse AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Marion Sinclair AWMM
- Surname
- Brown AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 22/104 AWMM
- Gender
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
- Presbyterian, Christian AWMM
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 6 Oct 1880 AWMM
Scotland AWMM - 6 Oct 1879 Kiwi Jocks Research
Janethill Cottage, Lesmahagow, Lanarks AWMM
- 6 Oct 1880 AWMM
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- Pre 06 Jun 1915 AWMM Waimatuku, Southland, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Mrs J.S. Brown (mother), Waimatuku, Southland, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 10 Jul 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 22/104 AWMM
- Military service
- No. 1 Stationary Hospital, Port Said AWMM
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
- 1914-1915 Star AWMM
- British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
- Victory Medal AWMM
Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 06 Jun 1915 AWMM
Age 35 AWMM
Matron/Military AWMM - Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 Hospital Ship No. 1, 1st Voyage from NZ AWMM Vessel was Maheno AWMM Nurse AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1, "Maheno" AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
5 foot 9 inches AWMM - Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
11 stone 5 pounds AWMM - Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
dark AWMM - Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Blue AWMM - Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Very dark brown AWMM - Other, Unknown Period AWMM
wears glasses AWMM - Accidental Death, Cause of Death AWMM
Drowned AWMM
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Staff Nurse AWMM
New Zealand Army Nursing Service AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Marion Brown was the daughter of Mrs. J. S. Brown, of Waiuatuku, Southland.
She trained for nursing at Riverton.
Marion was one of the New Zealand nurses who died when the Marquette was torpedoed and sank in October 1915.
The Marquette was a British Merchant ship of 7,057 tons. It sank when a torpedo launched from a submarine hit it 36 miles south of Salonika Bay. Twenty nine crew and 182 troops were lost. Ten of those who died were New Zealand nurses who had been working at No.1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital in Port Said in October 1915 when they were ordered to prepare to go to Lemnos. The hospital was to be set up there to care for casualties being brought back from the Dardanelles. The Transport Ship Marquette took on board officers and men of the New Zealand Medical Corps, 36 New Zealand Army Nursing Staff, 610 officers and men of 29th Divisional Ammunition Column , 541 mules and some ammunition in mid October sailed for Salonika. The French torpedo destroyer Tirailleur joined the convoy on 22 October which gave credence to the idea that there was a real danger of being attacked by German submarines in the Mediterranean. The torpedo destroyer left the convoy that night and at 9.15 am on 23 October the Marquette was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side and began to list. Within about 15 minutes she sank. Nurses lost their lives in the evacuation as lifeboats tipped over as they were lowered into the sea, some boats falling on others, with some being left on the ship and going down with her. Nurse Brown is said to have held hands with nurse Isabel Clark as they went into the sea.
Auckland War memorial Museum Scars on the Heart WWI " Nurses and Volunteers " display. Display item is a page of the Roll of Honour of those who died on active service. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 23 Oct 1915 AWMM
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Accidental Death AWMM
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- Cemetery
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Mikra Memorial, Greece AWMM
- Nurses' Memorial Chapel, Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
- Memorial window, Five Sisters Window, north transept, York Minster, York, England AWMM
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21888734
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 - Rogers, A. (2006). In loving memory: the Nurses' Memorial Chapel, Christchurch, New Zealand. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 119 (1244), online.
http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/119-1244/2292/
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 - York Minster, Five Sisters Window. In memory of overseas nurses. (1925, 3 July). Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, p. 140.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=KT19250701.2.44&srpos
Further Reference - SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=1142
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1647747/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1647747
Further Reference - Wikidata Entity
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24846089
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 85 - Tolerton, J. (2017). Make her praises heard afar : New Zealand women overseas in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Booklovers Books.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
- Rogers, A. (2003). While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.
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