A boy receiving dental care at Te Kaha School, Opotiki Alexander Turnbull Library John Dobree Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783) Reference: 1/4-001117; F Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.
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.
The New Plymouth Public Health Committee instructions to volunteer nurses or family attendants dealing with influenza, probably issued during the 1918 pandemic.
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).
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'.
Much of the care for wounded and ill American servicemen in New Zealand was in the hands of American nurses such as these two, photographed at the launch of tow-boats at Auckland in August 1943
