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On April 8 1915, the first fifty New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS) nurses to serve in the First World War sailed from Wellington, New Zealand, on the steamship Rotorua. Earlier that year the New Zealand Cabinet had approved the formation of the NZANS, and the Defence Act was amended to make provision for a Nursing Service. The British Government accepted the offer of the services of New Zealand nurses and arrangements were made for the first contingent to travel to London. After a journey lasting over 40 days they arrived in England on 19 May. The Matron in Chief accompanying the contingent was Hester Maclean. Since 1906 Maclean had been the Assistant Inspector of Hospitals and Deputy Registrar of Nurses and Midwives in New Zealand. The nurses were assigned to military hospitals by the British War Office and were ultimately stationed with units throughout Egypt. The hospitals where the nurses would be working were inspected by Matron Hester Maclean before she returned to New Zealand in October 1915. The nurses were given the status of Officers and ranked below Medical Officers. When the nurses arrived in London it was reported in the nursing journal, Kai Tiaki, that the nurses were given tea at the Westminster Palace Hotel by the High Commissioner, Mr Mackenzie. In the following days the nurses were entertained by trips to Richmond, Hampton Court and Kew and several visited wounded New Zealand soldiers at a Birmingham hospital. At the end of the week they were to sail to either Malta or Alexandria. The High Commissioner said in his speech that women had played a “wonderful and beneficent part in this, the most terrible of all wars” and he felt confident that “New Zealand nurses would honourably uphold the traditions of their country and their profession in the great mission on which they were now setting out.” This item shown here is from a collection of photos transferred to Archives New Zealand by the School of Advanced Nursing Studies. Archives Reference: ADEU 16391 SANS22 7/137 archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=13235489 For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material from Archives New Zealand Caption information from Kai Tiaki: the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, July 1915. Vol. VIII, Iss. 3., www.teara.govt.nz/en, the New Zealand Army Nursing Service website: www.nzans.org/NZANS History/NZANSHistory-1915-1922.html, and the Auckland Museum website muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/general/TroopShips |
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