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Nora Mildred Hildyard, also known as Nona, was born on 4 November 1888 at Lyttelton, the youngest of the eight children of William and Betsy Ann (née Tibballs) Hildyard, of Lyttelton. William Hildyard had married Betsy Ann Tibballs in 1870 at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, where two daughters were born before they came to Lyttelton in about 1873 and had six more children. Betsy Ann who was born in England migrated to Tasmania with her family in 1861. William Hildyard who was a bootmaker and who served on the Lyttelton Borough Council, was a lodge member and vice-president of the Lyttelton Young Men’s Club, died in November 1899, after a very brief illness. Flags were flown at half-mast in Lyttelton as a mark of respect for Mr Hildyard. Nona was educated at West Lyttelton School, where she received a Standard III award and an attendance certificate in 1897. She was awarded a Standard IV prize in 1899, then went on to Lyttelton District High School and Gilby’s Commercial College in Christchurch. She was also a popular member of the Lyttelton Ladies’ Swimming Club. Nona took an interest in nursing and, as a member of the St John Ambulance class, passed the examination in First Aid conducted at Lyttelton in late August 1907. She passed the examination in “Home Nursing and Hygiene” in November 1907, her class found to be highly efficient. In April 1908 she was successful in Class 10 First Aid. The following month Miss N. Hildyard was assisting on the flower stall at the chrysanthemum show and sale of work in aid of the funds of the Lyttelton Methodist Church, doing so again in May 1909. The second daughter of the Hildyard family, Edith Mable Hildyard had married George Pitcaithly in 1894. Edith and George lived for many years at Waimate where he was a schoolmaster. This was the reason, it seems for both Nora and Sydney having an association with Waimate, Nora frequently visiting Waimate in her childhood.

Nona’s formal nursing training was at Christchurch Hospital. Nora M. Hildyard passed, with credit, the State Examination of Nurses held in December 1913, working afterwards in private nursing in Christchurch. Eighteen months later, her life was to change abruptly. When the call was made for nurses to serve overseas, had her services accepted, one of eleven nurses from the Canterbury district selected in June 1915. On the evening of 1 July 1915, a number of citizens of the borough of Lyttelton met Nurse Hildyard and presented her with a purse of sovereigns. The large attendance was proof of Miss Hildyard’s popularity. In making the presentation Mr W. C. Geary expressed pleasure that Miss Hildyard's services had been accepted by the New Zealand Government. He remarked that the Lyttelton district had to date contributed about 200 men for the fighting line, but Nurse Hildyard was the first lady to represent the port. On behalf of the subscribers, Mr Geary wished her every success, in the work she was about to take up. Nona Hildyard was soon to leave for the Dardanelles. When she left by the ferry steamer on the night of 5 July to join the nursing staff of the Maheno, she was given a hearty send-off by her friends.

Nona Mildred Hildyard enlisted at Wellington on 6 July 1915, joining the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. Single and Methodist, she named her mother as next-of-kin – Mrs B. A. Hildyard, Lyttelton. She had been medically examined on 22 June 1915. She was 5 feet 5½ inches tall, weighed 106 pounds, and had a chest measurement of 31-33½ inches, with a fair complexion, grey eyes and brown hair. Her sight, hearing, colour vision, heart and lungs were all normal, her teeth a pass. Having never been ill, nor had a fit, free from inveterate or contagious skin disease, vaccinated and in good bodily and mental health, she was passed Fit. Nora Hildyard, Christchurch, Christchurch Hospital Staff, was one of 69 nurses selected for service in the military hospitals who left from Wellington on 10 July 1915 in Hospital Ship No. 1, the “Maheno”. They were going to provide for the Dardanelles wounded in Egypt. “A ceremony which is becoming quite familiar took place in the Parliamentary Library on July 9th, when the New Zealand badges were presented to the nurses who left on July 10th with the Hospital Ship. There was quite a large gathering of onlookers, . . . . . . It was an interesting ceremony, and in his speech the Minister of Defence (the Hon. James Allen) did not lightly pass over the difficulties and trials that our nurses in their care for the soldiers would have to face. The Deputy-Minister for Defence said that a thousand applications had been received from nurses who wished to go on service — 400 from untrained nurses and 586 from trained nurses. . . . . . . The task of selecting those for the Hospital Ship had been carried out by himself and Miss Bicknell, and was a very difficult one, as no fewer than ten hospitals in New Zealand were represented. . . . . . . The Minister also tendered his best wishes to the nurses, and expressed the hope that they would return safely to this Dominion. . . . . . , and as each nurse left the building she was presented, on behalf of Lady Liverpool, with a box of chocolates.” Amongst Nona’s fellow nurses were several she would have already known and some who were to meet the same fate.

Nurse Hildyard embarked for the front on the first voyage of the hospital ship “Maheno” four days after enlisting at Wellington on 6 July 1915. She was transferred from the “Maheno” to No. 1 Stationary Hospital on 18 August 1915. It was reported on 7 November 1915 that Nurse Nora Hildyard was missing on 23 October; 2 days later the report was that she was “believed to be drowned”. This was just 12 days before her 27th birthday. No matter how well individually prepared, nothing could guard against the terrible tragedy which awaited Nona and compatriot nurses. She was one of the ten New Zealand nurses who died when the Marquette was torpedoed and sank on 23 October 1915 south of Salonika Bay in the Aegean Sea. The Marquette had taken on board officers and men of the NZ Medical Corps, 36 NZ Army Nursing Staff, 610 officers and men of 29th Divisional Ammunition Column at Alexandria on 19 October. Nona and other nurses had been working at No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital at Port Said when they were ordered to prepare to go to Lemnos where the hospital was to be set up to care for casualties from the Dardanelles. The Marquette was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side and within 15 minutes she sank. Most of the nurses lost with the Marquette were from the South Island. It is believed that the hospital was being transported to Anzac Cove when the transport was torpedoed. The Marquette was an easy target as it was not marked as a hospital ship with a red cross.

“Nurse Hildyard, missing and believed to be drowned, is an old Lyttelton District High School girl and would have been twenty-seven years of age last week. Her father died some years ago, but her mother still resides in old Governor’s Bay Road, Lyttelton. She was a most popular lady and a good swimmer, having been an active member of the Lyttelton Ladies’ Swimming Club. Nurse Hildyard commenced her career at the Christchurch Hospital and by assiduous study soon became qualified. Later she entered the service of Dr Sandston and also occupied an important post in Nurse Turner’s private hospital, Christchurch. On the occasion of her departure with the New Zealand nurses on the Maheno she was given a send-off by several citizens of the port. She was attached to the New Zealand No. 1 Stationary Hospital, Port Said, and in recent letters to her friends she expressed great satisfaction in the work she had undertaken. Nurse Hildyard’s sisters are Mrs G. Pitcaithly (Waimate), Mrs T. Turnbull (Wellington) and Mrs E. R. Curtis (Lyttelton). One of her brothers (Sidney) is at the front with the Sixth Reinforcements.” [Lyttelton Times, 3 November 1915.]

“The news of the loss of ten nurses by the torpedoing of the hospital transport Marquette, in the Aegean Sea, while removing No. 1 New Zealand stationary hospital staffs from Port Said to a new base — and particularly the fact of so many well-known and highly-esteemed Waimate nurses being in the list — has cast quite a gloom over the town to-day. The flags are flying half-mast out of respect for the memory of the martyred nurses. No fewer than five out of the ten missing nurses were well-known in Waimate. . . . . . . Nurse Hilyard was a sister of Mrs G. Pitcaithly, and was frequently in Waimate. She came from Lyttelton, and was trained in the Christchurch Hospital.” [Waimate Daily Advertiser, 3 November 1915.] Dr Margaret Cruickshank, of the Waimate Hospital noted that Nurses Brown, Gorman, Fox and Hilyard were all well-known there. Nurse Hilyard, a sister of Mrs George Pitcaithly, spent a good part of her girlhood in Waimate, She had the happiest and most loveable of dispositions. She served her probationership in the Christchurch Hospital, “and I think practically left from Christchurch. I do not know her as a nurse, but I am sure she would be an excellent one. . . . . . I feel, because I knew them so well, that I have suffered a personal loss in parting from Nurses Gorman, and Hilyard.”

A very impressive service was held on 9 November 1915 in St. Michael’s and All Angels Church, Christchurch, in memory of the New Zealand nurses who had recently lost their lives while on active service. His Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch addressed the large congregation which included 200 nurses in uniform. It was fitting that this service should be held in the Cathedral City of the South Island, seeing that almost all the nurses whose loss was mourned belonged to that island. It was proposed to erect a chapel at the Christchurch Hospital in memory of the nurses, three of whom belonged to the staff of that Hospital, who were lost in the Marquette, and for this purpose a collection was started at the memorial service. The service concluded with the singing of the National Anthem. The next day Mrs Hildyard, of Lyttelton, received advice from the Minister of Defence that confirmation had been received of the death by drowning of her daughter, Nurse Hildyard, in the torpedoing of the transport Marquette in the Ægean Sea. At a meeting of the Mount Herbert County Council later in the month, a vote of condolence was passed to the relatives of Nurse Hildyard.

At the annual distribution of prizes at Gilby’s College in mid- December 1915, it was stated that a number of ex-students of the college were known to have given their lives for King and country. It was also stated that a large number of Old Girls of the college were actively engaged as nurses in various military hospitals, and at least three were on the torpedoed transport Marquette, one of whom, Miss Nona Hildyard, was drowned. It was intended to install a roll of honour of ex-students of the college who had laid down their lives in the service of their country. About the same time, Mrs Hildyard, of West Lyttelton, whose daughter, Nurse Nona Hildyard, was one of the victims of the sinking of the transport Marquette when that vessel was sunk by a German submarine in the Aegean Sea, received the following letter from one of the surviving nurses: — “. . . I thought you would like to have a few lines from one of us. When torpedoed we donned lifebelts and Nonie and I were in the same boat, but it heeled over shortly after reaching the water, and I got separated from her. She regained the boat with several others, and was very bright and cheerful, singing “Tipperary,” etc., and helping to keep the others’ courage up. . . . But the poor child eventually died from exhaustion before we were picked up. We were in the water about eight hours, and it was very cold. We all miss her awfully — she was such a good pal, and we had been together all through.” A united intercession service, under the auspices of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, Lyttelton, was held on Sunday evening, 4 June 1916. There was a very large attendance of churchgoers, friends and relatives of men on active service. Special hymns were sung and prayers offered, and the Revs J. J. Bates and W. C Olliver gave spirited addresses. During the service a roll of honour was read, which included Nurse N. Hildyard (died on active service) and her brother S. Hildyard (on active service).

As of July 1916, the people of Lyttelton proposed erecting a memorial to the late Nurse Nona Hildyard, who perished in the Marquette disaster, in recognition of her service to the Empire. The memorial would consist of a portrait, with a brass tablet suitably inscribed, to be hung in the Council Chambers. The Lyttelton Marine Band started off the fund-raising. On 8 March 1917 a life-size portrait of the late Sister Hildyard, who lost her life in the Marquette disaster, was unveiled by Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool in the presence of the nurses from the hospital ship, and a large gathering of citizens, mostly women. They had gathered that afternoon to honour the memory of a woman who had paid the final sacrifice in the execution of her duty, said the Deputy Mayor. “Having given her noble life in their cause, they were in honour bound to pay their small tribute to her memory.” Her Excellency said that she congratulated Lyttelton on honouring the memory of a woman who had given her life in her country’s service, and then unveiled the memorial, a bugler playing “The Last Post.” The sisters who were on their final leave before sailing on the “Marama” attended the unveiling of the memorial.

At a successful “Soldiers’ Parcel” social held in the Methodist schoolroom, Lyttelton, on the evening of 30 May 1918, the Rev J. E. Parsons said that the church roll of honour now contained sixty-nine names of soldiers and nurses who had passed through the Sunday school or church. Nurse Hildyard had been drowned in the Marquette disaster. Altogether seven members had made the supreme sacrifice, while several had returned sick or wounded; there were still over fifty at the front. It was on 28 March 1926, that a memorial tablet beautifully carved in oak and bearing the names of all those members of the Church or Sunday school who saw active service in the Great War was unveiled at the Lyttelton Methodist Church. There are ninety-one names inscribed on the tablet, including among those who made the supreme sacrifice Nona M. Hildyard. On 27 October 1919, many churches throughout the country held memorial services for nurses who had fallen during the war (including Sister Nora Mildred Hildred, drowned, of Christchurch) and those who died during the influenza epidemic - St Mary’s, Timaru; St Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin; Christchurch Anglican Cathedral; Holy Trinity and St Patrick’s churches, Greymouth; and others. The offerings of the congregations were in aid of the New Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund. The New Zealand Nurses’ Association held a memorial service in honour of their sisters who were lost on the Marquette ship, who died on war service, or who were victims of the epidemic, at St Peter’s Church, Wellington, which was attended by, among others, Their Excellencies, the Governor-General and Countess of Liverpool, the Prime Minister and Miss Massey, officers of the New Zealand Medical Corps, New Zealand Army Nursing Sei-vice, Wellington Hospital nurses, and representatives of the Nurses’ Memorial Fund. The service was opened with the impressive playing of Chopin’s “Funeral March”. The address was delivered by the Ven. Archdeacon Watson, who served as a chaplain on the Hospital Ship Maheno. They had met, he said, to thank God for the self-sacrifice and heroism of those nurses who had given their lives for their country, both during the war and during the epidemic that had devastated this country a year ago. The service concluded with the playing of the “Dead March in Saul,” the congregation standing, and two boy buglers sounded “The Last Post.” Among the nurses whose memory was honoured was Sister Nora Mildred Hildred, who was drowned in the torpedoing of the Marquette.

A reunion of members of the New Zealand Army Medical Corps who had passed through the camp at Awapuni during the great war was held in November 1921 at Palmerston North. On the Sunday a memorial service in honour of the memory of the New Zealand Army nursing sisters and members of the N.Z.M.C. who fell in the war took place at All Saints’ Church. During the service, two In Memoriam tablets – both fine pieces of workmanship, of polished brass mounted on oak and placed on the wall of the church - were unveiled. The inscription over the first reads: “In honoured memory of the N.Z. Nursing Sisters who made the supreme sacrifice in the great war, 1914-18.” The names inscribed on the tablet include that of Mona Mildred Hildyard [sic]. The second tablet bears the inscription: “Erected by No. 3 (Rifle Brigade) Field Ambulance. In memory of the officers and men who fell in the great war.” In August 1924, Dr. P. Clennell Fenwick, C.M.G., consulting surgeon to the Christchurch Hospital, issued “History of Christchurch Hospital,” a portion of which was entitled “Things. I Would Like to See.” There he wrote — I want to see wards named after the Christ/church Hospital sisters who died so bravely in the “Marquette”" disaster (Nurse Nora Hildyard, Nurse Lorna Rattray, and Nurse Margaret Rogers).

In early 1925, funds were sought for an extension to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, to celebrate its 35th birthday. It was proposed to dedicate the new Nurses’ Home as a memorial to members of the Overseas Nursing Service who died in the Great War – 30 members of the Canadian Nursing Services, 24 members of the Australian Nursing Service, 15 members of the New Zealand Service, 4 members of the South African Service, 3 members of the Colonial Nursing Association, and 1 member attached to the Indian Military Nursing Service. Permission was given by the Dominion’s Governments. This hospital was the only hospital in England run for and staffed entirely by women. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson who was the first woman to practise as a doctor in Britain, died in December 1917. The foundation stone having been laid on 4 November 1937, this memorial in honour of those overseas nurses who died during the Great War while serving with the forces of the Empire was dedicated and opened on 27 October 1938. A memorial panel which bears twenty names including Mary Gorman, is set into the wall of the entrance hall.

Nona Hildyard is also remembered on the Five Sisters Window in York Minster, York, England. In June 1925, the Duchess of York unveiled the famous mediaeval “Five Sisters” window in York Minster, restored as a national memorial to 1465 women of the Empire – War Heroines - who died during the war. There were many subscriptions from Australia and New Zealand. Before doing so she said: “As an act of most high praise and glad thanksgiving to Almighty God for the lives and devotion of the 1465 women of the Empire who died for their country in the war, now, in the name of their sisters in all parts of the world, I unveil and restore to its ancient use the Five Sisters Window.” Almost immediately the curtain shrouding the window fell soundlessly and gracefully away. After the singing of the hymn “For all the Saints who from their labours rest,” the Archbishop dedicated the oak screen which had been erected with the surplus of the funds raised for the restoration of the window, and has been placed in the St. Nicholas Chapel to bear the names of the 1465 women whose sacrifice in the war the restoration commemorates. After the blessing by the Archbishop, the “Last Post” and the “Reveille” were sounded. The Five Sisters window is a magnificent depiction in stained glass of needlework done by five sisters. During the war the precious glass of York was removed and stored for protection. It was later discovered that this special window was in urgent need of repair. It was one lady’s inspiration that led to the repairing and replacing of the window to become a single memorial to all the women of the Empire who gave their lives during the war. Women from all parts of the Empire funded the work, and in the space of nine weeks the £3000 asked for had been received. The names of more than 1400 women of Britain and the Dominions are painted on the screen, one of the panels dedicated to the New Zealand women. All along the top runs the inscription: ‘This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war, 1914-1918, to whose memory the Five Sisters Window was restored by women.’ This war memorial is unique among war memorials.

New Zealand’s first hospital chapel (and only purpose-built hospital chapel) was erected at Christchurch Hospital in 1927 as a memorial to those Nursing Sisters who made the supreme sacrifice when the “Marquette” was torpedoed and those who died in the 1918 influenza epidemic, the first service being held on Christmas Day 1927. At the laying of the foundation stone in March 1927, Dr Fox (Medical Superintendent) said: “We have just reason to feel proud of the New Zealand nurses who proved their courage and devotion to duty during the long years of the Great War, and gave untiring service to the sick and wounded. In peace as well as on active service, our nurses have laid down their lives and it is to perpetuate the memory of the brave and faithful women that this chapel is to be dedicated. On October 23rd. 1915, the transport Marquette, conveying the staff of the First New Zealand Stationary Hospital, was torpedoed in the Gulf of Salonika. Among those who lost their lives were three nurses belonging to the Christchurch Hospital. During the influenza epidemic of 1918, two nurses gave up their lives to duty. We feel that no more fitting memorial of these, our comrades, could be found than a Hospital Chapel, which will recall to all who serve in this hospital the memory of those good and faithful servants who made the supreme sacrifice for others: — Nurse Nora Hildyard, Nurse Lorna Rattray, Nurse Margaret-Rogers laid down their lives in the Great War. Nurse Grace Campbell Beswick, Nurse Hilda Hooker gave up their lives to duty during the epidemic, all thereby perpetuating the tradition of the noble calling.” The “Last Post” was sounded before the flag was removed from the stone, and the stone was declared well and truly laid. Stained glass windows and arched beams add to the beauty of the inter-denominational chapel. On 23 October 1965, the 50th anniversary of the Marquette tragedy, the Christchurch Press printed a specially written article which included personal accounts from survivors. “World War I had not long been entered on its second year when there occurred a disaster at sea involving a New Zealand hospital unit which caused a sensation at home. The occasion was the torpedoing of the troopship Marquette during its passage from Egypt to Greece. There was distressing loss of life among the nurses belonging to the hospital unit, and the whole Dominion was shocked when news of the sinking came through. Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the loss of the Marquette, which went to the bottom on October 23, 1915. The 8000-ton vessel slid under the waves in less than eight minutes after being struck. . . . . .” At a reunion of 32 survivors, of whom six were sisters in the Army Nursing Service, held in Christchurch that weekend, a special service in the nurses’ chapel at the Christchurch Hospital commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the troopship Marquette in the Gulf of Salonika on October 23, 1915. The chapel which was repaired after earthquake damage is now in the ownership of the Christchurch City Council and is protected by a Heritage Order.

A great tragedy of the war was recalled when a special service was held at the National War Memorial Tower at 3 o'clock on the afternoon 23 October 1932, for the purpose of commemorating the service and sacrifice of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service during the Great War. The date marked the 17th anniversary of the torpedoing of the transport Marquette in the Aegean Sea in which ten New Zealand nurses lost their lives and also the 14th anniversary of the second last battle in which the New Zealand Division participated, resulting in its capture of Beaudignies and the forcing of the passage of the Escaillon River. The service was attended by members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, the Returned Soldiers’ Association, and the National War Memorial Carillon Society. Special numbers were played on the National War Memorial Carillon. Of the 579 New Zealand nurses who served 15 gave their lives, including the ten lost in the Marquette disaster, Nora Hildyard one of them.

Nona Mildred Hildyard is honoured on the - Mikra Memorial, Greece; the Lyttelton War Memorial; the Nurses Memorial Chapel, Christchurch (‘Marquette’); Lyttelton Methodist Church Roll of Honour; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London overseas nurses memorial; “Five Sisters” window in York Minster, England - national memorial to women of the Empire. Lvttelton’s Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial was unveiled by his Excellency the Governor-General in the afternoon of 25 April 1923 in the presence or about 2000 residents. The returned soldiers and sailors of Lyttelton, about 120 in number, together with other troops paraded at the Drill Hall and marched to the Cenotaph. The proceedings commenced with the singing of the hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past”, followed by the 46th psalm and a prayer. The Mayor said that the day marked the greatest and most memorable event in Lyttelton. They were there to express esteem for the gallant deeds and noble deaths of those whose names appeared on the Cenotaph. In regard to the memorial, it was thoroughly representative of Lyttelton, for the stone of which it was built was quarried in their own town, while the splendid design was by an old vicar of Lyttelton. Inscribed on the Cenotaph were names representing the land forces of New Zealand as well as the Naval Reserves and th devoted nursing sisterhood. “For the glory of God and the honour immemorial of those great men and women of Lyttelton who have given their lives for King and Empire,” concluded his Excellency, “I now unveil this Cenotaph.” The band played while a large number of magnificent wreaths were placed on the Cenotaph. After “The Last Post” had been played, the National Anthem was sung and the Benediction was pronounced. The first name inscribed on the World War One panel is Hildyard Nona Mildred (Nursing Sister).

Mrs Betsy Ann Hildyard died at Christchurch in March 1934 and was buried at Lyttelton with her husband, and two of their sons – Malcolm Chrles who had died in infancy and William Henry who was accidentally killed at Hokitika in 1905. She was survived by two sons and three daughters. Nona’s medals - 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal – had been sent to her next-of-kin, her mother Mrs B. A. Hildyard, of Cressy Terrace, Lyttelton in 1921-1922. Nurse Hildyard was a victim of the torpedoing of the "Marquette" near Salonika, just 3½ months after enlisting. A balance of pay (14 shillings and 5 pence) was due to the late 22/125 Nurse N. M. Hildyard. Sydney Harcourt Hildyard, Nona’s youngest brother, also served in World War One.

Various photographs of Nurse N. H. Hildyard were printed in the Sun of 3 November 1915 and 9 March 1917, the Star of 3 November 1915, the Free Lance on 5 November 1915 and the Otago Witness of 17 November 1915, and in other places. The portrait of Nona Hildyard which was presented to the people of Lyttelton in 1917 is now in the Christchurch Art Gallery.

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