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Ethel Maud Dement

  • Service number
    WWI 22/54 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Dament AWMM
    • Thomas AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Nurses in the First World War, as identified by Sherayl McNabb back row (l to r), Winifred Scott, Hilda Steele, Nora Fitzgibbon, Grace Cuthrie, Ethel Dement, Cora Turnbull, and Helen Brown. Seated (l to r), Dorothy Rose, Elizabeth White, Alice Fraser, Elsie Cooke, (looking away from the camera) and Jessie Verey. Image kindly provided by Hocken Collection, Hocken Library, University of Otago. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

Nurses in the First World War, as identified by Sherayl McNabb back row (l to r), Winifred Scott, Hi …

Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ethel Maud AWMM
  • Surname
    Dement AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Dament AWMM
    • Thomas AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/54 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Wellington Hospital, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Miss A. Dement (aunt), 6 Alton Street, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1 April 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/54 AWMM
  • Military service
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Training and Enlistment

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  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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    WW1 Nurse AWMM
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Prisoner of war

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  • Days interned
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Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • Surname appears as Dement in Nominal Rolls, as Dament in Archives New Zealand

    One of 12 Nurses who attested and sailed to Australia and served with the Australian Army Nursing Service, at the No.1 Australian General Hospital in Egypt, where they nursed some of the wounded from Gallipoli. AWMM

Death

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Sources

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  • 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 Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Page No: 184 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
    • 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. 3: 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
    • Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. AWMM
      p,. 167, 169, 170 AWMM

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