No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital staff

No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital staff

The medical staff of No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital at Hazebrouck in France. Only some of those in the front row are named. The soldier fourth from left is Captain David Isaacs; the nurse on his left is Jean Gilmer. Matron Fanny Price sits in the centre, with Colonel Eugene O'Neill and Captain William Willis beside her. In the group of five nurses on the right, the second is identified only by her surname, Smith (she could be Alice or Ruth); the fourth is identified as Shaw, though the two nurses with this surname appear to have served only in England and Egypt. The soldier on the far right is Captain W. Gray.

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Wallaby Historian

Posted: 11 Feb 2023

To the contrary. Lt-Col Eugene O'Neill would serve in three theatres of war. The Boer, the Great War and World War II passing away on the eve of ANZAC Day, 1962. It was Lt Col Charles Begg who died of influenza and pneumonia in February 1919 and was the last gallant officer buried at Walton Cemetery.

Wallaby Historian

Posted: 11 Feb 2023

Captain Eugene O'Neill was the last of the medical corps to die while serving at Walton on Thames No 2 NZGHospital post November 11th 1918. He is buried at Walton Cemetery where to this very day a small ANZAC Day service is still held annually.

Jackie Smith

Posted: 24 Apr 2022

Im picking the A B Smith nurse 2nd in the group of five, will be Alice Brash Smith my Great-Aunt.
She won the Nursing Red Cross 2nd Class on recommendation from General Hague.
You can contact me if you need other details.

Wallaby Historian

Posted: 13 Dec 2015

The nurse third from left is, Elsie Grey from whom you've quoted her diary entries, given to the Turnbull Library by her neice Marion Simmonds(nee Grey) of Palmerston North. The nurse fourth from right is Alice Brash Smith from Cambridge in the Waikato. Sister on far right next to Captain Gray is Sister Edith Hay.