Identity
Title
Forenames
Ethel Watkins AWMM
Surname
Taylor AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
- Ethel Watkins-Taylor AWMM
- Pritchard AWMM
- Watkins AWMM
Service number
WWI 22/47 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Te Hikutu
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Waka
Rohe
Religion
Anglican
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Civilian life
Birth
Date of birth
Place of birth
Birth notes
daughter of Ratahi Madgeline Taylor (widow of Watkins) and stepdaughter of Colin MacKenzie Taylor
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Address before enlistment
Pre 6 April 1915 AWMM Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
Mrs Major C.M. Taylor, College Hill, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
Relationship status
- Pre 8 April 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
- 1921 married Alfred Pritchard in Gisborne Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 November 2015 - Research
Service
Capture details
Days interned
Liberation date
Liberation Repatriation
POW liberation details
POW serial number
Biographical information
- Daughter of Madeline (Magdaline) Cochrane and Bazett (Barrett) Watkins. Wife of Albert Pritchard, married 5 July 1921.
Served 4 years 78 days in WW1.
Joined Legion of Frontiersmen around 1916 and was awarded long-service medal in 1949
Awarded the MBE in 1949
Name changed from Ethel Watkins to Ethel Watkins Taylor after 1902. Portrait in DNZB. Listed by Kai Tiaki as Ethel Watkins-Taylor.
One of the few Nurses of Māori descent serving in WWI. AWMM - 1921 - Sister Ethel Watkins Taylor is resigning her position as Native Health Nurse at Te Karaka, on account of her approaching marriage - Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 November 2015 - Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XIV, Issue 2, April 1921, Page 101
- 1919 - Among those who arrived on the Ripple yesterday morning was Sister Ethel Watkins Taylor, who left with the first drafts of 50 nurses from New Zealand in 1915. She has returned after four years service, and was awarded the 1915 decoration. She is the guest of Mr and Mrs Hewitt, Fox street. Sister Watkins Taylor's first appointment was to the 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, and in the course of her experiences she was for a time engaged on hospital ships, and on one occasion witnessed a fight between a submarine and a transport. Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 November 2015 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14925, 31 May 1919, Page 2
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Sources
External links
Documents
- Burling, G.B. (2009). Legion of Frontiersmen New Zealand Command Inc : History 1904 - 2009. Waihi, N.Z.: Graham B. Burling. AWMM
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
Vol1: 713 AWMM - Gisborne Herald AWMM
Obitiuary: Gisborne Herald, 20 July 1968 p. 8 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
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| Date | Name | Location | Relationship | Contact |
| 18 May 2016 | Lorraine M | Gisborne, NZ | Researcher |
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