Mary Gorman

Mary GORMAN. Staff Nurse 22/73 NZANS. Born 10 May 1880 at Oamaru, New Zealand to John and Catherine Gorman, of Arno, Waimate, Timaru. New Zealand. 9 May 1915, Trained at Waimate Hospital and worked as a sister in the Wellington Public Hospital.
Enlisted 19 May 1915 at Wellington, New Zealand aged 35. Next of kin her father of Wainmate, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Served in Egypt.
In October 1915 she was on board troop ship SS Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine U-35 and sunk. She lost her life when a life boat being lowered into the Aegean Sea swung out of control into the nurses in their life boat killing and mortally wounding others on the 23 October 1915,
she was aged 35. Total service was 157 days.