List of nurses who died in World War I
An estimated 1,500 nurses from a number of countries lost their lives during World War I.[1] Some died from disease or accidents, and some from enemy action.
Australia
29 Australian nurses died from disease or injuries; 25 of these died on active service, and 4 died in Australia from injuries or illness sustained during their service.[2] Most of these nurses were serving in the Australian Army Nursing Service; however, a small number were serving with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, one of a number of British Army nursing services during World War I.[2] Other Australian women made their own way to Europe and joined the British Red Cross, private hospitals or other allied services.[3]
Nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service
Name | Date of death | Circumstances of death | Place of death |
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Louisa Bicknell | 25 June 1915 | Sepsis poisoning | Cairo, Egypt |
Kathleen Brennan | 24 November 1918 | Spanish flu | Leicester, England[4][5] |
Emily Clare | 17 October 1918 | Pneumonia | India[6] |
Ruby Dickinson | 23 June 1918 | Pneumonia | United Kingdom[7] |
May Hennessy | 9 April 1919 | Malaria[8] | Bendigo, Australia[9] |
Hilda Knox | 17 February 1917 | Meningitis[10] | France[11] |
Irene McPhail | 4 August 1920 | Tuberculosis | Melbourne, Australia[12] |
Edith Moorhouse | 24 November 1918 | Illness | France[13] |
Norma Mowbray | 21 January 1916 | Pneumonia | Cairo, Egypt[14] |
Gertrude Munro | 10 September 1918 | Pneumonia and malaria | Greece[15] |
Letitia Moreton | 11 November 1916[16] | Enteric (typhoid) | India[17] |
Lily Nugent | 21 February 1918 | Phthisis (tuberculosis) | Sydney, Australia[18] |
Amy O'Grady | 12 August 1916 | Cholera[19] | Bombay (Mumbai), India[20] |
Rosa O'Kane | 21 December 1918 | Spanish flu[21] | Perth, Australia[22] |
Katherine Porter | 16 July 1919 | Pneumonia | Sydney, Australia[23] |
Kathleen Power | 13 August 1916 | Illness | India[24] |
Doris Ridgway | 6 January 1919 | Pneumonia[25] | Perth, Australia[26] |
Elizabeth Rothery | 15 June 1918 | Illness | Beechworth, Australia[27] |
Mary Stafford | 20 March 1919 | Leukemia | Torrens Park, Australia[28] |
Ada Thompson | 1 January 1919 | Spanish flu[29] | Perth, Australia[30] |
Fanny Tyson | 20 April 1919 | Illness | Sutton Veny, England[31] |
Jean Miles-Walker | 30 October 1918 | Pneumonia | Sutton Veny, England[32] |
Beatrice Watson | 2 June 1916 | Illness | Suez, Egypt[33] |
Nurses serving with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Name | Date of death | Circumstances of death | Place of death |
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Charlotte Berrie | 8 January 1919 | Pneumonia | Jerusalem[34] |
Narrelle Hobbes | 10 May 1918 | Liver cancer | At sea[35] |
Myrtle Wilson | 23 December 1915 | Pneumonia | France[36] |
Volunteers serving with the Australian Red Cross
Name | Date of death | Circumstances of death | Place of death |
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Louisa Riggall | 31 August 1918 | Haemorrhage | France[3] |
Britain
Edith Cavell was executed for treason by a German firing squad on 12 October 1915 in Brussels, Belgium.
In March 1915, four Scottish nurses died in Serbia of typhus.[37] They were part of a group of Scottish women - nurses, doctors and volunteers - who had travelled to Serbia to establish Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service:
- Margaret Neill Fraser
- Louisa Jordan
- Augusta Minshull
- Bessie Sutherland
Catherine Miller was working at the 1st Western General Hospital in Liverpool, England when she died on 24 December 1918. She had contracted malaria while serving in Russia.[38][39]
Canada
53 Canadian nurses lost their lives during the war.[40] In one incident, on 27 June 1917, 14 nurses were killed when their hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed while travelling from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool, England.[41] The nurses who died were:
- Mary Agnes McKenzie.[12]
- Christina Campbell.[13]
- Carola Josephine Douglas.[14]
- Alexina Dussault.[14]
- Minnie Aenath Follette.[14]
- Margaret Jane Fortescue.[14]
- Minnie Katherine Gallaher.[14]
- Jessie Mabel McDiarmid.[14]
- Rena McLean.[14]
- Mary Belle Sampson.[14]
- Gladys Irene Sare.[14]
- Anna Irene Stamers.[15]
- Jean Templeman.[15]
New Zealand
16 New Zealand nurses died during the war, including 10 who died in the sinking of the hospital ship SS Marquette.[42]
Name | Date of death | Circumstances of death | Place of death |
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Isabel Clark | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Ella Cooke | 8 September 1917 | Hit by a train | Alexandria, Egypt |
Catherine Fox | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Mary Gorman | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Nona Hildyard | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Helena Isdell | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Mabel Jamieson | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Elise Kemp | 20 October 1917 | Killed when a German aircraft bombed the field hospital she was in | Flanders, France |
Lily Lind | 21 November 1916 | Tuberculosis, contracted while nursing | At sea, on board SS Maheno |
Lorna Rattray | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Mary Rae | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Margaret Rogers | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Marion Brown | 23 October 1915 | Drowned in the sinking of the SS Marquette | Aegean Sea |
Romania
Ecaterina Teodoroiu was a Romanian nurse who enlisted as a soldier and died on 3 September 1917 during active service.[43]
United States of America
Nurses Clara Ayres and Helen Burnett Wood were the first two women to be killed while part of the United States military when they died on May 17, 1917, following an accident on board USS Mongolia.[44]
Helen Fairchild died in France on January 18, 1918, from post-operative complications following surgery for an ulcer.[45]
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