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Emily Hesba Grant

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  • Service number
    WWI 22/412 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Ross AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Army Nursing Service Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Emily Hesba AWMM
  • Surname
    Grant AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Ross AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 22/412 AWMM
  • Gender
    Female AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 March 1885 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    1 March 1885 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Place of birth
    Port Chambers, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Birth notes
    Daughter of William Mudford GRANT & Emily nee' LEVEY Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
    • Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Post war occupation
    Nurse at the Gisborne Hospital - Retired Jan 1919
    Lived in Wairoa, HB after she was married Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Unknown next of kin AWMM
    • Reverend W.M. Grant (father), Port Chalmers, New Zealand AWMM
    • Reverend W.M. Grant (father), Port Chalmers, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    NZ Hospital Ship Maheno Jan 1917 - July 1918 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Army Nursing Service Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 22/412 AWMM
  • Military service
    Jan 1917 - Dec 1918 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    1911 passed the State Examination of Nursing - trained at Dunedin Hospital Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Research
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    • WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
    • WW1 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    • WW1 Unknown AWMM Nurse AWMM
    • 8 Jan 1917 at Christchurch Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment
    31yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record

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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  • Last rank
    Sister Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Military Record

Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

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  • Death
    23 September 1965 Public Source
  • Date of death
    23 September 1965 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Wairoa District Council's Cemetery Records
  • Age at death
    80yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Wairoa District Council's Cemetery Records
  • Place of death
    Wairoa, Hawke's Bay Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Wairoa District Council's Cemetery Records
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Wairoa Cemetery, Wairoa, HB., NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Wairoa District Council's Cemetery Records
  • Grave reference
    CE ID: 01416; Plot # 3768 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 26 November 2016 - Wairoa District Council's Cemetery Records
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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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/R16788046
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      50: 2 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      73: 2 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      79: 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

Contributors

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
27 July 2017DianaLondon, UKDirect descendant
26 November 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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