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SISTER L. E. BRANDON (P.A.) Wellington, Sept. 24. The death occurred yesterday in the hospital, after a long illness, of Sister Louise Elizabeth Brandon. She was at one time lady editor of the New Zealand Free Lance and also of the New Zealand Times. Latei' she took up nursing, and in the Great War served as a sister in Samoa and later on the staff of the hospital ship Maheno, and was on the ship when it brought wounded from Gallipoli and France. While in England she was matron of the officers' hospital at Brighton. Upon returning to New Zealand she became matron of the Military Hospital, Rotorua, having given five years military service, for which she was decorated with the A.R.R.C.
She was a daughter of Mr. Eustace de B. Brandon, elder son of the Hon. A. de B. Brandon, and a sister of Major P. de B. Brandon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 227, 25 September 1945, Page 4
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151OBITUARY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 227, 25 September 1945, Page 4
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