The first New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS) nurses to leave New Zealand, on the deck of the SS Rotorua, April 1915. Back row (left to right): Annie Buckley, Kate Wright, Emma Harris, Elizabeth Nixon, Janet Moore, Christina Lowe, Florence Siddells, Christina Gibbon, Alice Searell, Daphne Commons, Jean Ingram. Next row: Isabella Scott, Maud Mitchell, Matilda Fricker, Fanny Wilson, Emily Curties, Kathleen Davies, Mary Sutherland, Margaret Samson, May Chalmers, Jean Cormack, Fanny Speedy, Jean Dodds. Third row (standing): Ina Bennett, Vida Maclean, Carrie Young, Marie Wilkie. Fourth row: May Foote, Mabel Crook, Eva Livesey, Fanny Price, Edith Harris, Lily Burke, Marton-in-Chief Hester Maclean, Sarah Clark, Emily Nutsey, Captain Sutcliffe, Bertha Nurse, Theresa Butler, Louisa Bird, Edna Pengelly, Isla Stewart. Front: Alicia Inglis, Jane Miller, Mary McBeth, Elizabeth Smailes, Ethel Taylor, Grace Calder, Kate Barnett. Missing: Cora Anderson and Agnes Williams.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-0321-001
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