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Emily Edwina Beattie

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Showing a group portrait of 16 New Zealand nurses aboard the deck of the troopship R.M.S. 'Athenic', with one male army officer, and a small boy (in front row). As part of a fifth contingent of nursing staff, 25 nurses travelled on both the 'Athenic' and 'Opawa' to England, in 1916. Included in that contingent were Sisters Alice Haywood, E.F.Martin, E.Barnes, F.Hart, L.K.Scanlon, B.Watters, N.Mandeno, E.A.Parkinson, R.C.Makeig, N.Slater, E.E.Beattie, M.McGee, J.N.McGhie, A.C. McKerchar, S.G.Barr, I.C.Ancell, E.M.Fitzgerald, E.Beer, N.M.Jensen. [Note: it is not known which of these may be in this image]. The 'Athenic' disembarked from Wellington, New Zealand on 30th December, 1916, carrying the troops of the 2nd Draft, 20th Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 7-A15887. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

Showing a group portrait of 16 New Zealand nurses aboard the deck of the troopship R.M.S. 'Athenic', …

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Emily Edwina AWMM
  • Surname
    Beattie AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Ross AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 22/401 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Civilian life

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  • Birth
    16 April 1881 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    16 April 1881 Public - James Benjamin - Other Relative - 13 September 2015 - Family records
  • Place of birth
    Ashburton Public - James Benjamin - Other Relative - 13 September 2015 - Family records
  • Birth notes
    Oldest daughter of the Rev Alexander Minty Beattie and Mrs Frances Beattie (nee Oliver) Minister of Public - James Benjamin - Other Relative - 13 September 2015 - St Andrews Presbyterian Church,Ashburton (1879-1889)
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
    Nurse Public - James Benjamin - Other Relative - 13 September 2015 - Family records
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Miss F.A. Beattie (sister), Leslie, Macmurray Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
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    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 22/401 AWMM
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    WW1 Matron/Military AWMM
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Sources

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    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      49: 21 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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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
31 October 2021SueRemuera, AucklandResearcher
19 November 2016JacquelineMatamata, New ZealandResearcher
13 September 2015James BenjaminAucklandOther Relative

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