Ada Gilbert Hawken. Staff Nurse 22/123 NZANS
Born 6 January 1886 at Whangarei, New Zealand Gilbert and Agnes Kate Hawken, of Boscoppa, 16, Ranfurly Road, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand.
Notes from her service records.
Next of kin was her father
Enlisted June 1915 aged 30 and reported for duty the 6 July 1915 Bay of Islands Hospital, Kawakawa, New Zealand. .
10 July 1915 embarked from New Zealand on Hospital Ship No1 Maheno bound for Suez, Egypt.
Admitted into 19 General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt 26 October 1915, died of typhoid (enteric) fever 28 October 1915 aged 29
Her war medals sent to her father at 16 Ranfurly Road.
At rest in Chatby Military and War Memorial, Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt
Image of headstone credited to. NZ War Grave Project.
