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Full Name: Staff Nurse Catherine Anne Fox
Rank Last Held: Staff Nurse
Forename(s): Catherine Anne
Surname: Fox
War: World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No.: 22/118
Gender: Female
First Known Rank: Nurse
Occupation before Enlistment: Nurse
Next of Kin: Miss M. Fox (sister), Hallenstein's Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Marital Status: Single
Body on Embarkation: Hospital Ship No. 1, "Maheno"
Embarkation Unit: New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps
Embarkation Date: 10 July 1915
Place of Embarkation: Wellington, New Zealand
Transport: Hospital Ship. No. 1, 1st Voyage from NZ
Vessel: Maheno
Destination:
  • Suez, Egypt
  • Alexandria, Egypt
Page on Nominal Roll: 242
Last Unit Served: New Zealand Army Nursing Service
Place of Death: Salonika, Greece
Date of Death: 23 October 1915
Year of Death: 1915
Cause of Death: Drowned
Memorial Name:
  • Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories
  • Mikra Memorial, Greece
Biographical Notes:
  • Catherine Fox was one of the New Zealand nurses who died when the Marquette was torpedoed and sank in October 1915. She left New Zealand on H.S. Maheno.
  • Trained as a nurse in Dunedin.
  • Served in Egypt
Description of Image:
  • Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915
  • Stained glass ceiling of the entrance foyer, Auckland War Memorial Museum . The window includes the crests of Great Britain and its Dominions and Colonies involved in the First World War. (photo Brian Brake).
Further References:
  • Kendall, S. & Corbett, D. (1990). New Zealand military nursing: a history of the R.N.Z.N.C, Boer War to present day. Auckland, The Authors.
  • Auckland War Memorial Museum Scars on the Heart WWI "Nurses and Volunteers" display. Display item is a Roll of Honour of Nurses who died while on active service.
  • Search http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz for information about this person's Military Personnel File. Use the Simple Search option.
Additional Information:
  • The Marquette was a British Merchant ship of 7,057 tons. It sank when a torpedo launched from a submarine hit it 36 miles south of Salonica Bay. Twenty nine crew and 182 troops were lost. Ten of those who died were New Zealand nurses who had been working at No.1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital in Port Said in October 1915 when they were ordered to prepare to go to Lemnos. The hospital was to be set up there to care for casualties being brought back from the Dardanelles.
  • The Transport Ship Marquette took on board officers and men of the New Zealand Medical Corps, 36 New Zealand Army Nursing Staff, 610 officers and men of 29th Divisional Ammunition Column , 541 mules and some ammunition in mid October sailed for Salonika. The French torpedo destroyer Tirailleur joined the convoy on 22 October which gave credence to the idea that there was a real danger of being attacked by German submarines in the Mediterranean. The torpedo destroyer left the convoy that night and at 9.15 am on 23 October the Marquette was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side and began to list. Within about 15 minutes she sank.
  • Nurses lost their lives in the evacuation as lifeboats tipped over as they were lowered into the sea, some boats falling on others, with some being left on the ship and going down with her.
  • In Egypt there were two New Zealand Hospitals (No.1 and 2 NZ Stationary Hospitals and one Convalescent Hospital (Aotea Convalescent Hospital) in Cairo.
Sources Used: Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919
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