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Frances Price

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Notable Events in Nursing History - The First Fifty Nurses sent with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces [April 1915]. Archives New Zealand R13235489. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Frances AWMM
  • Surname
    Price AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 22/8 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
    14 April 1873 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Picton, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Pre 23 March 1915 AWMM Children's Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Lady Supervisor of the Gisborne Hospital
    1923 Did her midwifery training -GisborneTownley Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW1 F.R. Price,Beaumont, Mount Street, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
    • (brother) Francis Reuben PRICE Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record
  • Relationship status
    Pre 8 April 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • Sinai & Palestine AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
    • NZGH Abbassia; NZGH Brockenhurst; NZSH Hazebrouck; NZGH Walton ' Thames Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Army Nursing Service Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Service number
    WWI 22/8 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1905 passed the State Examination of Nursing # 502, she did her training at Wellington Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military record & Research
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 23 March 1915 AWMM
    Age 41 AWMM
    Nurse AWMM
    AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
    Sister in charge of the Childrens' Hospital in Wellington Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Military Record
  • Age on enlistment
    42yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 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
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • Total service 3 years 132 days. Daughter of Charles and Mary (nee Milton) Price. AWMM
    • Matron Frances PRICE was the sister to:
      Sgt William James PRICE - SA War # 4243 7th NZ Contingent
      Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Research

Death

About death

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  • Death
    13 November 1961 AWMM
  • Date of death
    13 November 1961 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Research
  • Age at death
    88yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Research
  • Place of death
    NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 December 2016 - Research
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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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 Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 592 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. 2: 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
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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21 November 2017domamiensResearcher
26 June 2017JeniferWairarapaResearcher
06 December 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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