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Isabel Clark (nurse)

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A memorial oak tree was planted in Oamaru. There are also plaques at the Oamaru Hospital, Ardgowan School and Waitaki Girls' High School. Waitaki Girls' holds an annual essay writing competition in her name.
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Clark was born in 1885, the youngest of six children born to Christina and Hugh Clark. Her parents were Scottish settlers and the family lived at Ardgowan, near
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comforted each other on the deck of the ship before holding hands and leaping into the sea together. Neither Clark nor Brown was seen again.
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when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk. Survivors reported that Clark and fellow nurse
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Hospital and Oamaru Hospital. After qualifying, Clark was a nurse at a private hospital in Auckland.
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Waimate Hospital plaque to nurses who died on the SS Marquette
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at Christchurch Hospital. She is also remembered in the
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New Zealand military personnel killed in World War I
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Index


SS Marquette
New Zealand
First World War
SS Marquette
Oamaru
Waitaki Girls' High School
Waimate

New Zealand Army Nursing Service
Wellington
SS Maheno
Port Said
Egypt
Marion Brown
Mary Gorman
Catherine Fox
Mikra British Cemetery
Nurses' Memorial Chapel
Five Sisters window
York Minster
"The Marquette Sinking Centenary | New Zealand Wargraves Project"




"Plaque to commemorate the Waimate Nurses who died during the sinking of the Marquette"
the original
"'Marquette'. Thirty-one New Zealanders died on 23 Oct. 1915"
"Nurse Isabel Clark memorial | NZHistory, New Zealand history online"

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