Nurses' Memorial Chapel
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The Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, is registered as a Category I heritage building. The chapel is significant as New Zealand's first hospital chapel, and as the country
The Nurses Memorial Chapel following the February 2011 earthquake
The foundation stone shows the name of the Duchess of York, but her husband stood in for her as she was ill that day
SS Marquette (1897)
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SS Marquette was a UK transatlantic cargo liner. She was launched in Scotland in 1897 as Boadicea, and made her maiden voyage from Glasgow to New York in 1898. Later that year she changed owners, and
Nurses' Memorial Chapel
…and to nurses who died during the 1918 flu pandemic. Three Christchurch nurses—Nona Hildyard, Margaret Rogers and Lorna Rattray—died when the troopship SS Marquette was sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. Two Christchurch nurses—Grace Beswick and Hilda Hooker—died during the flu pandemic. In the mid-1970s, the…
Marquette, probably in the Scheldt
U-35 in the Mediterranean in 1917
Letter dated 27 October 1915 from the War Office stating that personnel of the New Zealand Stationary Hospital were aboard Marquette when she was sunk
The French destroyer Mortier