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A boy receiving dental care at Te Kaha School, Opotiki Alexander Turnbull Library
John Dobree Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)
Reference: 1/4-001117; F
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Several NZ nurses and least one doctor provided medical assistance in the Spanish Civil War

More than 14,000 New Zealanders were wounded between June and December 1917 in Belgium, and medical staff, orderlies, chaplains and stretcher-bearers worked round the clock to tend them.

A leaflet produced by the Christchurch branch of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee during the Spanish Civil War

René Shadbolt led the only New Zealand contingent to the Spanish Civil War. She and fellow nurse, Isobel Dodds, cared for wounded soldiers, particularly those from the International Brigades, from July 1937 to November 1938.

Of the small group of New Zealanders who served in the Spanish Civil War, most made their own way to Spain from Britain and Australia. The only organised New Zealand contingent comprised three nurses: René Shadbolt, Isobel Dodds, and Millicent Sharples.

Women staff at hospital in Huete, Spain, during the Spanish civil war, 1937

Nurses Isobel Dodds, René Shadbolt and Millicent Sharples made up the only organised New Zealand contingent to serve in the Spanish Civil War.

22 people died from influenza at Dunedin's Seacliff psychiatric hospital during the 1918 pandemic.

The New Plymouth Public Health Committee instructions to volunteer nurses or family attendants dealing with influenza, probably issued during the 1918 pandemic.

Nursing at the hospital at Wisques in France was tough and constant.

Tending to the wounded on or near the battlefield was a huge job, and one that was done under the most difficult conditions.

A woman describes the importance of the work of nurses and of the Red Cross in training them.

Evelyn Brooke was appointed matron on the hospital ship Maheno, which embarked for Turkey in July 1915. As a hospital ship matron, she was responsible for all nursing arrangements. Much of the work was carried out by male orderlies, whom she trained but were under the command of a non-commissioned officer (the wardmaster).

District nurse weighing a baby, Waihara gumfields, Northland in the 1940s

Hear Nurse Margaret Macnab talk about US marines and venereal diseases.

In July 1915, during the Gallipoli campaign, Ettie Rout set up the New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood and invited women between the ages of 30 and 50 to go to Egypt to care for New Zealand soldiers.

New Zealand nurses were anxious to serve in the war. The first group left for South Africa in early 1900, and by the end of the war, at least 35 had served.

Sister Teape of Christchurch worked in the Bloemfontein General Hospital in April 1900 and described it as 'a hotbed of fever, the dreaded enteric raged everywhere... and no sanitary arrangements whatever'.