Catherine Anne FOX. Staff Nurse 22/118 NZANS
Born 18 March 1877 at Cardrona, Central Otago, New Zealand to Mrs. J. S. Brown, of Waiuatuku, Southland. Sister to Miss M. Fox, of Hallenstein's Buildings, Auckland.
6 July 1915 trained in Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin, New Zealand also self employed Private Nurse at Waimate, New Zealand.
She lost her life when a life boat being lowered into the Aegean Sea swung out of control into the nurses in their life boat killing and mortally wounding others on the 23 October 1915, she was aged 38
Commemorated on the Mikra Memorial, Greece.
Some notes from her service record
Enlisted 24 June 1915 aged 33. The 10 July 1915 posted to, No 1 New Zealand Hospital Ship, Maheno. Embarked 19 July 1915 on active service from Wellington, New Zealand on board hospital ship bound for Port Said, Egypt, disembarking 12 August 1915. She joined a contingent of nurses working at No 1 Stationary Hospital. She and others of No 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital embarked from Alexandria on a grey painted troopship. SS Marquette the 19 October 1915 bound for Salonica. ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk in the Aegean Sea, Gulf of Salonika 23 October 1915 aged 38. Ten nurses died
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