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Mary Watson Anderson

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Nurses New Zealand General Hospital Cairo. Identification of nurses in photograph from scrapbook re. Cora B. Roberton (nee Anderson) [Box 9] as follows: Front row (l to r); Army Officers, Harvey (C45411), Wallis (C57814), Armitage (C37550), unknown, Rev.Mackenzie-Gibson (C44054), Sir Louis Edward Barnett (84270), Matron Bertha Nurse (C51995), DDMS Parkes (C52502), Maguire (C50070), Bowerbank (38870), Scott (C54777), Hogg (C46114), Curtis (C41545), Fergus (C43098). 2nd row, Sisters J. James (C46866), C. Doneghue (C42186), A. Stephenson (C56044), M. Boyd (C35775), M. Affleck (C34793), I. Bennett (C122051), V. MacLean (C49742), E. Wilson (C58809), I. Willis (C58742), E. McAllum (C48816), M. Ellis (C42775), M. McBeth (C48861), R. Fanning (C42986) and M. Mitchell (C51001). 3rd row, Sisters, J. Naismith (C51617), K. Carter (C40108 or C40109), A. Philpotts (C53000), A. Holmwood (C46198), K. Booth* (C35703), I. Stewart (C56157), D. Commons (C40846), C. Anderson (C34725), A. Williams (C58599), E. Porteous (C53175), I. Gordon Boyd (C38912), L. Newell (C51759), K. Kitching (C47825), Mary Anderson (C34827). 4th row, Sisters, M. Samson (C54602), A. Whitta (C58458), N. Hughes* (C69328), W. Brook-Lees (C35782) and 5th row, M. Hobbs (C46049), K. Welch (C58191). *visiting from Aotea Convalescent Home. Mackrell, Brent. Papers. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2003-107. Image has no known copyright restrictions. Copy of image also found in Colin M. Gordon Album PH-ALB-376-p25-2. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

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    Mary Watson AWMM
  • Surname
    Anderson AWMM
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    WWI 22/180 AWMM
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    Female AWMM
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    Unknown AWMM North-east Valley, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
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    Mrs Robert Anderson (mother), Maybank, North-east Valley, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
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    Pre 14 August 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
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    WWI 22/180 AWMM
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    WW1 Otago, New Zealand AWMM
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  • Anderson trained at Dunedin Hospital and became a Registered Nurse in 1914. AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R22270219
    Further Reference
  • 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. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 14 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
    • Colin M. Gordon Album (1915-1918). Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira PH-ALB-376. AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 5: Includes portrait AWMM

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