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From: "Shirley Arabin" <>
Subject: [NZ] WW1 NZ hospitals in Egypt
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:21:55 +1300


Quoting from NZ Military Nursing by Sherayl Kendall & David Corbett.
Auckland 1990.


p.45 - 48.
NZ nurses arriving in Egypt were sent to the following hospitals;
No.15, No.17.No.19 and No.21 General Hospitals were in Alexandria.
Ras-el-tin a small hosp in Alex.
Lady Godley's Hosp. convalescent home in Alex with a trained nurse in charge
and staffed by Red Cross.
Citadel Military Hospital, Cairo.& Nasarieh Schools.
Heliopolis Palace Hospital
Imperial Infectious Diseases Hospital, Shoubra nr Cairo.
No.1 & 2 Auxiliary hosps. Cairo.
Egyptian Govt. Hosp & Schools Hosp. at Port Said.
No.1 NZ Stationary Hosp. Salonika
No.2 NZ Stat. Hosp. Pont de Koubbeh.

The Aotea Convalescent Hospital at Heliopolis was equipped by the patriotic
residents of Wairarapa, Wanganui, and Rangitikei (and Wgtn). Accomodation
was for 100 patients. Convalescent centre for the NZ Mounted Brigade. It
functioned from 1915 to 1919 and run by Matron Early, Sisters Kate Booth and
Nora Hughes, and several VAD workers.

In answer to Drew's question I do not think the staff was rotated with the
nurses serving the full time there.
Kate Booth was my aunt, and Nora Hughes was her cousin (both from
Wairarapa).

Book includes names of all nurses up to Vietnam.

Shirley Arabin
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand .


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