Serial Number is recorded as 22/19 on Nominal Roll, 22/28 on Archives New Zealand.
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Matilda Fricker - 1877-1954

Matilda was born in Auckland the 2nd daughter of 8 children whose parents were Walter and Frances Jane Fricker. She first worked at a Sanatorium in Cambridge in 1905-6. She completed her nursing training at Waikato Hospital and was registered in1911. She completed her midwifery at St Helens in 1912. She left from Wellington on the Rotorua in 1915 as part of a chosen group after a request from the British War Office.
She was awarded an Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

After the war she lived and worked at Waikato Hospital where she was a sub matron. She stayed in Hamilton until 1946 when she shifted to Tauranga where she died in 1954.

Above biography was transcribed, researched and written by Margaret Nash of Panmure Branch of NZSG
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