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Mary Eleanor Hobbs

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  • Service number
    WWI 22/126 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Dick AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Army Nursing Service Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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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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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mary Eleanor AWMM
  • Surname
    Hobbs AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Dick AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/126 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    9 October 1884 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    9 October 1884 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Place of birth
    Gore, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Birth notes
    daughter of John HOBBS & Mary Findlay nee' HOPE Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Wellington Hospital, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Reverend John Hobbs (father), Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM
    • Reverend J. Hobbs (father), Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 10 July 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
    • 1918 married Corporal Charles Kennedy DICK in England Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Suez; 1916 SS Willochra to NZ & returned to Suez; NZGH at Cairo; NZHS Marama; No1 NZGH London Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Army Nursing Service Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 22/126 AWMM
  • Military service
    1915-1918 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards
    1914-1915 Star
    British War Medal
    Victory Medal Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1911 Became a Registered Nurse #954 having done her training at Wellington Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
    Nursing Sister at the Gisborne Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Age on enlistment
    32yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record & Research

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    1917 hospitalised with measles Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    Sister Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Military Record

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
    21 November 1968 Public Source
  • Date of death
    21 November 1968 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Age at death
    84yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Place of death
    Wellington, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
    Cremation # 30240 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 November 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

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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/R18048490
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 333 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      26: 26 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

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07 November 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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