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Mabel Thurston

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Photograph of New Zealand Hospital Matrons. Left to right:Miss Mabel Thurston, Matron in Chief, N. Z. Expeditionary Forces; Miss Hester MacLean, Matron No 1 N. Z. General Hospital, Brockenhurst; Miss Cora Anderson, Matron N. Z. Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch; Miss Frances Price, Matron N. Z. Stationary Hospital, France; Miss Louise McNie, Matron No 3 N. Z. General Hospital, Codford; Miss Fanny Wilson, Matron, No 2 N. Z. General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Image kindly provided by Patricia Howden. Image has no known copyright.

Photograph of New Zealand Hospital Matrons. Left to right:Miss Mabel Thurston, Matron in Chief, N. Z …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mabel AWMM
  • Surname
    Thurston AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 22/342 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    22 July 1871 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Matron/Military AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • New Zealand Military Nursing - A History of the R.N.Z.N.C. Boer War to Present Day AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      29: 2 AWMM
    • 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
      Auckland War Memorial Museum, Reference Files, Women's Archive. Newspaper clippings. (3) 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

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