NURSES WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA
Service Refused at First Trained nurses from all parts of the colony offered to accompany the First New Zealand Contingent to South Africa, but the Defence Department decided not to send a nursing staff and the only medical officer appointed would return to the Dominion as soon I as the troops had landed at the Cape. I The reason given by the Department ' was that the Contingent on arriving at the scene of operations would become part of the British Army, for which -ill arrangements as to nurses and medical officers would be arranged by the War Office. As the war progressed; however. New Zealand nurses were attached to the Contingents, and a number were sent from Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21529, 16 December 1939, Page 33 (Supplement)
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125NURSES WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21529, 16 December 1939, Page 33 (Supplement)
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