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ANDREWS, Christina Cameron
(Service number )

Aliases
First Rank Probationer Nurse Last Rank Probationer

Birth

Date 7 August 1875 Place of Birth Lochmaddy, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date 25 October 1915 Age 40 years
Address at Enlistment c/o Major C. E. ANDREWS, Headquarters, NZ Military Forces, Wellington, NZ
Occupation Nurse
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Married
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Military Service

Served with UK Armed Forces Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation Royal Army Nursing Service
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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

Date 31 July 1916 Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 9 April 1957 Age 81 years
Place of Death Wellington
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Karori Crematorium, Wellington
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Christina Cameron Mackenzie was the daughter of Peter and Ann (née Cameron) Mackenzie. Christina had come to New Zealand as an infant with her parents. She married Charles Eric Andrews on 28 March 1900 at Wellington, New Zealand. In 1900 Christina was a nurse at Mount View Asylum, Wellington. Christina and Charles were living in Campbell Street, Timaru, by 1911, and moved to Preston Street prior to the war. Mrs C. C. Andrews, of Timaru, wife of Captain Andrews, NZSC, arrived in England at the end of January 1915, intending to go across to France to offer her services as a nurse. From 17 May to 20 October 1915 she worked as an unpaid Special Probationary Nurse at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (Military Wards). From 25 October 1915 to 31 July 1916 she was on the nursing staff of the 4th London General Hospital (special short period enlistment), where she was when her husband spent a few weeks' leave in June 1916. Mrs Andrews was discharged when her husband was invalided home. In October 1917 she applied for a badge, her address then being C/o Major C. E. Andrews, Headquarters, NZ Military Forces, Wellington, NZ. It seems that she was not eligible for the badge.

Sources

Star, 27 March 1915, NZ Herald, 27 June 1916, Press, 29 June 1916, Timaru Herald, 30 June 1916 (Papers Past) [23 January 2020; 02 February 2020]; Karori Crematorium record (Wellington City Council) [02 & 03 February 2020]; Medal Roll (National Archives) [03 February 2020]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [02 February 2020]

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