N.Z. HOSPITAL SHIP

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20507, 18 March 1941, Page 8

N.Z. HOSPITAL SHIP

MATRON APPOINTED MISS E. M. LEWIS LAST WAR EXPERIENCE (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. Miss E. M. Lewis, matron of the Wairau Hospital, has been appointed matron of the New Zealand hospital ship, Maunganui. Yesterday Miss Lewis was granted six months’ leave of absence by the Marlborough Hospital Board at the request of the Government. Miss Lewis had a lengthy period of nursing service in the Great War. On the outbreak of war she joined the Red Cross in England and sailed for Egypt in the New Zealand hospital ship Manama late in 1915. After an appointment to the staff of the AngloAmerican Hospital in Cairo, she was later transferred to the 27th general hospital and posted to the hospital ship Assaye. She made several trips between Suez, India and East Africa. Ivliss Lewis was the only New Zealand sister attached to the unit proceeding to Palestine late in 1917 when she was attached to the 45th Stationary Hospital at El Arish. Later, she served on No. 8 hospital train running between Jerusalem and Kantara. Miss Lewis was attached to the General Hospital at Alexandria when the armistice was signed and remained there until 1919 when she rejoined the hospital ship Assaye. She completed her military nursing at Trentham in 1921 when she was appointed to the Wairau Hospital. .