Sister Catherine Anne Fox

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Sister Catherine Anne Fox

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Sister Catherine Anne Fox (b. 1877) was one of several nurses known in the Waimate area who drowned when the troopship 'Marquette' was sunk by a German torpedo in the Aegean Sea on the 23 October 1915. Catherine enlisted in the NZ Army Nursing Service in July 1915 and left Wellington, New Zealand on board the SS Maheno. Her service number: 22/118. The Marquette was a British transport ship and not a hospital ship, marked witha red cross, so it sailed without the protection of the Geneva Conve...

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c. 1914-1915

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https://ehive.com/collections/3188/objects/529648

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WWI / Aegean Sea / Catherine Anne Fox / Marquette / #suffrage125

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