Isabel CLARK. Staff Nurse 22/108, of No 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, NZANS. Born 28 April 1885 at Oamaru, New Zealand to Christina and Hugh Clark. Sister of Alexander David Clark, of Ardgowan, Oamaru.
She is remembered in the Nurses Memorial Chapel, Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand.
23 October 1915 she was on board transport ship SS Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk in the Aegean Sea, Gulf of Salonikia. Ten other nurses also died that day
Commemorated on the Mikra Memorial, Greece.
Some notes from her service record.
Enlisted 6 July 1915 aged 30 years into NZANS posted to at Wellington, New Zealand Next of kin was her older sister, Margaret M Clark of Ardgowan, Oamaru, New Zealand. 10 July 1915 posted to No1 N.Z. Hospital Ship Maheno, and embarked 19 July 1915 on active service from Wellington, New Zealand bound for Port Said, Egypt, disembarking 12 August 1915. She joined a contingent of nurses working at No 1New Zealand Stationary Hospital. She and others of No 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital embarked from Alexandria on a grey painted troopship. Troopship SS Marquette the 19 October 1915 bound for Salonica. She and nine other nurses died when the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk in the Aegean Sea, Gulf of Salonikia 23 October 1915 she was aged 30. The same port and day a marked hospital ship left completely empty.
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