New Zealand Nurses who are now at the Front or who have gone Home to offer their Services

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 1 January 1915, Page 29

New Zealand Nurses who are now at the Front or who have gone Home to offer their Services

M ; ss May Palmer, Wellington Hospital first to leave New Zealand, and whose interesting description of a "Croix Rouge" hospital is published in this issue. M ; ss Laura James, Wellington Hospital who is a member of Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service, and who is stationed in Rouen at No. 12 General Hospital. Nurse James has sent an interesting letter to her late Matron, which is published in another column.

M n 'ss Berry, who is managing a temporary military hospital.

Miss Caroline Jones, trained Napier Hospital, who went Home at her own expense, and shortly after arrival was attached to Queen Alexandra's Reserve Hospital Ship. Miss Lind, Wellington Hospital, who is working in Rouen in the Hospital Hotel Dieu under the French Wai Office as one of the French Flag Nursing Corps in the unit sent from England. Nurse Lind's letter is also published.

Miss Hitchcock, Wellington Hospital, who is also a member of the French Flag Nursing Corps and at the same hospital as Nurse Lind. These two nurses were in England when war commenced.

Miss Mary Wilson, Dunedin, who went Home at her own expense, to offer her services, wrote a fortnight after arrival, that she hoped soon to get to work, and had put her name down at the Red Cross Office.

Mrs. Holgate, left in " lonic " in December. Miss K. Mills, Dunedin Hospital, is

working at a hospital established specially for the postal telegraph and telephone men 20,000 of whom are at the front, and is training. Miss Clare Jordan, Auckland, is at a voluntary Hospital at Newbury, Kingsclere. Miss Christina Hunter is at the Mayfield and Heathfiekl V.C.D. Hospital, Sussex. Miss Ella Cooke, of Auckland Hospital, who went Home last year with her sister, and was shortly to return is, we have heard, now abroad, but whereabouts unknown. Mrs. Burbery, late Nurse Seton of Wellington, whose home is near Ascot, is working at the Red Cross Hospital there as a sister, and sends an interesting account of the hospital. Miss Greig, Wellington Hospital, left recently to offer her services, her expenses being paid by a lady who had been her^ patient. Miss Margaret Dalrymple, Wellington, left in " lonic " in December. Miss Purcell, Wellington, left in December in " Ruahine." Miss Margaret Nixon, Timaru ; Miss Bowie, Timaru ; Miss Blackmore, Miss Eleanor Brown, Dunedin. All left in the " Somerset " in January to offer their services. Miss Lees, formerly of Wellington Hospital, is now at Dunkirk, where she has organised a hospital for the wounded. Miss Jeffrey, who is on duty with Indian soldiers.