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Evelyn Gertrude Brooke

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Photo from Kai Tiaki - the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VII, Issue 4, October 1914, Page 165, provided by Sarndra Lees. - Image has All Rights Reserved.

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Evelyn Gertrude AWMM
  • Surname
    Brooke AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Brown AWMM
    • Brookes AWMM
    • Eva Brooke AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/103 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    13 September 1879 AWMM New Plymouth, Taranaki AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 10 August 1914 AWMM Wellington Hospital Nurses' Home, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs K.T. Fremersdorf (mother), C/o E. White, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs K.S. Fremersdorf (mother), C/o E. White, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs K.S. Fremersdorf (mother), C/o E. White, Upland Crescent, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 15 August 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 10 August 1914 AWMM Registered Nurse/Civilian AWMM
    AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Height, Unknown Period AWMM
      5 foot 6 inches AWMM
    • Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
      8 stone 5 pounds AWMM
    • Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
      brown AWMM
    • Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
      brown AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • She married William John Brown of Nelson, a returned serviceman in 1925.

    Matron of Rannerdale Home, Papanui, Christchurch for ex-service patients.

    SuppNom: Returning to duty., SuppNom: Returning to duty. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    11 February 1962 AWMM
    Age 83 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM Soldiers Plot 30 E/5 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Obituary: Dominion, 5 March 1962 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • For my History internal assessment I had to research about someone who was at Gallipoli and the emotional impact it had on their life. Eva Brooke's was interesting as her veteran work was large and carried on even after the First World War had ended.

    All in all, an inspirational woman who helped our country in many ways.
    May she rest in peace
    Public - Isobelle - 8 April 2018
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.: Watkins. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 80 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      42: 2 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      61: 3 AWMM
    • Reference File. Women's Archive. Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM
      Newspaper clippings. (1) AWMM
    • Dominion Post AWMM
      Obituary:5 March 1962 AWMM
    • Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
      Cemetery register no. 91884 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
    • Liverpool, Arthur William de Brito Savile Foljambe, Earl of, (compiler). (1916). The New Zealand hospital ship "Maheno" : the first voyage July 1915 to January 1916. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited. AWMM
      p.59 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
    • 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. 1: Includes portrait 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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