Mabel Jamieson
{{Short description|New Zealand nurse (1881–1915)}}
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Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson (21 July 1881 – 23 October 1915) was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/news/marquette-sinking-centenary|title=The Marquette Sinking Centenary {{!}} New Zealand Wargraves Project|website=www.nzwargraves.org.nz|access-date=2016-06-27}}
File:New Zealand Army Nursing Service nurses, Wellington 1915.jpg
Early life
Jamieson was born in 1881 in Kumara, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Her parents were Thomas and Frances Jamieson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C7647|title=Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum|access-date=3 July 2016}} She trained as a nurse at Palmerston North Hospital.
First World War
Jamieson was nursing at Palmerston North Hospital{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/lifestyle/67992059/nursing-the-ravages-of-sexism-savagery|title=Nursing the ravages of sexism, savagery|website=Stuff|date=23 April 2015 |access-date=2016-07-03}} when she resigned her position to enlist in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in 1915. She left Wellington on board the SS Maheno. The ship sailed to Port Said, Egypt, and the contingent of nurses worked in a stationary hospital there. In October 1915 Jamieson was on board the SS Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk.
= Recognition =
On 21 November 1915, a memorial service was held at the Palmerston North Opera House presided over by the mayor, Jimmy Nash, for the Marquette nurses, which included Jamieson and fellow Palmerston North nurse Marion Brown.{{cite news |title=Heroic Nurses |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=MS19151122.2.3 |accessdate=3 July 2016 |work=Manawatu Standard |volume=XLI |issue=10234 |date=22 November 1915 |page=2}}{{cite news |title=Memorial Service |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=MS19151120.2.40 |accessdate=3 July 2016 |work=Manawatu Standard |volume=XLI |issue=10233 |date=20 November 1915 |page=6}}
Jamieson is named on the Mikra British Cemetery in Greece, the Rewa War Memorial in Rangitikei and in the Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital. She is also remembered in the Five Sisters window at York Minster in York, England. In Kumara, there is a plaque in the Kumara Memorial Hall and a memorial bed in the Kumara Hospital.
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Category:New Zealand military nurses
Category:Female nurses in World War I
Category:19th-century New Zealand people
Category:20th-century New Zealand people
Category:Nurses killed in World War I
Category:Sinking of the SS Marquette
Category:People from Kumara, New Zealand
Category:New Zealand women nurses
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