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| Tango01 | 26 Dec 2019 12:16 p.m. PST |
"New Zealand nurses served in both World Wars, providing devoted care to the war sick and wounded and displaying great courage. In 1914, Sister Ethel Lewis accompanied 400 patients from the frontline of the Serbian Campaign. "The nurses… pushed forward on foot, through the mountain passes of Albania, often with snow up to the knees, with rations reduced to one slice of bread per day, and no shelter at night except what they could find. They frequently slept in pigsties. Patients died daily and not one survived the retreat. One died on Sister Lewis's back after she had carried him two miles."1 Here are the stories of some Marlborough nurses who served on hospital ships and in theatres of war…"
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