Edna Pengelly

Born 1874 - Died 1959

Service number
  • WWI 22/7 AWMM
  • WWI 22/32 AWMM
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Army AWMM
War
World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Edna Pengelly
Group of nursing sisters on board Rotorua. (6 May 1915). Black and white photograph of nursing sisters on board a transport ship, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand. Returned Army Nursing Sisters Album; RANSA Album PH-ALB-398-p5-3. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. New Zealand nurses on board the Rotorua, during World War I. Sister Anderson is missing. Top row from left: Sisters Buckley, Wright, E J Harris, Nixon, Moore, Lowe, Siddells, Gibbon, Searell, Commons, Ingram. Next row: Sisters Scott, Mitchell, Fricker, Wilson, Curties, Davies, Sutherland, Samson, Chalmer, Cormack, Speedy, Dodds. 3rd row (standing): Sisters Bennett, Vida McLean, Young, Wilkie. 4th row: Sisters Foote, Crook, Livesay, Price, Edith Harris, Burke, Matron-in-chief Miss McLean, Clark, Nutsey, Captain Sutcliffe, Wilson, Matron Nurse, Butter, Bird, Pengelly, Stewart. Front: Sisters Inglis, Miller, McBeth, Smailes, Taylor (only face showing), Calder, Barnett. Taken by an unknown photographer on May 16 1915. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Group on boat deck of N.Z.S.S. Coup "Rotorua" May 16th 1915; Verso - centre - [Numbers corresponding to name list]. Names sourced from image held at Alexander Turnbull Library PAColl-0321-001. No Known Copyright Restrictions

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