Vida Mary Katie MacLean
Born 4 Nov 1881 - Died 1 Jul 1970
- Service number
- WWI 22/3 AWMM
- WWI 3/75 AWMM
- Also known as
- McLean AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- Inter War
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
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- Forenames
- Vida Mary Katie AWMM
- Surname
- MacLean AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- McLean AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 22/3 AWMM
- WWI 3/75 AWMM
- Gender
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 4 Nov 1881 AWMM
- Date of birth
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- Address before enlistment
- Pre 04 Aug 1914 AWMM Saint Helen's Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
- Next of kin
- Care of Findlay McLean, Bird Grove, Hunterville, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Samoa AWMM
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 22/3 AWMM
- WWI 3/75 AWMM
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
- Royal Red Cross (RRC) AWMM
London Gazette, 21 June 1918, p.7310 AWMM - 1914-1915 Star AWMM
- British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
- Victory Medal AWMM
- Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) AWMM
London Gazette, 3 June 1916, p 5579. AWMM - Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
In connection with administration in Egypt. London Gazette, 21 June 1916, p.6184. AWMM - Brought to notice of the Secretary of State for War (S.) AWMM
- Royal Red Cross (RRC) AWMM
Training and Enlistment
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 04 Aug 1914 AWMM
Age 33 AWMM
Nurse AWMM - Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Sister AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
- WW1 14 Aug 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 27 or HMNZT 28 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
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Last known rank
- Last rank
- Inter War 16 May 1919 AWMM
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Biographical information
- Nurse at Wanganui Hospital, 1905-1910
Sub-matron at St Helens Hospital, July-December 1912
Vida Mary Katie MacLean was one of seven Nurses attached to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Samoa.
After returning to New Zealand MacLean boarded the 'Rotorua' arriving in Plymouth on the 19 May 1915. After a few weeks she was sent with a contingent of New Zealand Nurses to Egypt where she took charge of the isolation block at the 300-bed New Zealand base hospital in Cairo.
In June 1916 McLean was posted as Matron to Hornchurch Convalescent Hospital where she was awarded the Associated Royal Red Cross and was Mentioned in Despatches.
She also posted as Matron to No.1 New Zealand General Hospital Brockenhurst from May 1917-March 1919, where she received the Royal Red Cross and was awarded her second MID.
MacLean was also brought to the attention of the Secretary of State of War for her valuable services rendered in connection with the War.
MacLean was returned home in 1919 to take over as Matron of Trentham Military Camp Hospital.
Prior to World War Two she had been working in Calcutta, India. During World War Two MacLean joined the Indian Military Nursing Service, and worked nursing in a Military Hospital there. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 1 Jul 1970 AWMM
Age 88 AWMM - Date of death
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Memorial
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Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10922066
Further Reference - New Zealand Dictionary of Biography.
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/
Further Reference - Mclean, H. (1932). Nursing in New Zealand: History and Reminiscences. New Zealand: Tolan Printing Company. Electronic version.
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-400984.html
Further Reference - Website: No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
Further Reference - Wikidata Entity
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7927642
Further Reference - McNabb, S. (2022, April). New Zealand Army Nursing Service – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps. NZANS. Archived from the Wayback Machine on 26 January 2023.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230126100532/https://www.nzans.org/
Further Reference - Elborough, Sophie. New Zealand Nurses in Samoa. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 5 April 2024.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/new-zealand-nurses-in-samoa
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 465 - 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.
- Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 1: Includes portrait - 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.
- Colin M. Gordon Album (1915-1918). Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira PH-ALB-376.
- Stevenson, A & MacLean, Lois [2016?]. Vida Mary Katie MacLean : military & civilian nurse, hospital matron, colonel, Aunt Vid. Perth, Australia : [Lois MacLean and Carolyn Howden].
- McDonald, W. (2001). Honours and awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. Napier, N.Z.: Helen McDonald.
p.202 - Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.: Watkins.
Volume 36, Issue 6, June 1943, p. 139. - 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.
- Tolerton, J. (2017). Make her praises heard afar : New Zealand women overseas in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Booklovers Books.
- Rogers, A. (2003). While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press.
- Howden, C., Stevenson, A., & MacLean, L. (2016). Vida Mary Katie MacLean military & civilian nurse, hospital matron, Colonel, Aunt Vid. [Perth?] : [Annette Stevenson and Lois MacLean?.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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