Rank: Nursing Sister
Unit: Nursing Service
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
Date of death: 7 August 1900
Place of death: Memorial Hospital, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Cause of death: Illness (Pneumonia)
The ten nurses who accompanied the 3rd Victorian Contingent to South Africa went with the Euryalus to Beira in Portugese East Africa (Mozambique) where they took the first available train to Rhodesia. They were to be distributed among the newly formed hospitals in Rhodesia and with the prevalence of enteritis, dysentery, malaria, blackwater fever, measles, pneumonia and influenza, there was a great deal of work for them to do. By July 1900 the nurses were distributed at four centres: Marianne Rawson, Ellen Walter and Julia Anderson were in the military hospital at Hillside camp, Bulawayo; Diana Tiddy and Annie Thomson were in the Civic Hospital in Bulawayo. Dorothy and Bernhard Smith, Eleanor Langlands and Isabel Ivey were at Umtali and Frances Hines was at Enkeldoorn. It was expected that all would eventually be serving at Bulawayo, but this was not to be the case. Frances Hines came to Bulwayo where in August 1900 she contracted enteritis and died - the only casualty among the Victorian nurses, though all of them were ill at some stage.
Contributor: Dolly (50626672)
An extensive history of Sister Francis Hines can be found on the Virtual War Memorial site.
Rank: Nursing Sister
Unit: Nursing Service
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
Date of death: 7 August 1900
Place of death: Memorial Hospital, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Cause of death: Illness (Pneumonia)
The ten nurses who accompanied the 3rd Victorian Contingent to South Africa went with the Euryalus to Beira in Portugese East Africa (Mozambique) where they took the first available train to Rhodesia. They were to be distributed among the newly formed hospitals in Rhodesia and with the prevalence of enteritis, dysentery, malaria, blackwater fever, measles, pneumonia and influenza, there was a great deal of work for them to do. By July 1900 the nurses were distributed at four centres: Marianne Rawson, Ellen Walter and Julia Anderson were in the military hospital at Hillside camp, Bulawayo; Diana Tiddy and Annie Thomson were in the Civic Hospital in Bulawayo. Dorothy and Bernhard Smith, Eleanor Langlands and Isabel Ivey were at Umtali and Frances Hines was at Enkeldoorn. It was expected that all would eventually be serving at Bulawayo, but this was not to be the case. Frances Hines came to Bulwayo where in August 1900 she contracted enteritis and died - the only casualty among the Victorian nurses, though all of them were ill at some stage.
Contributor: Dolly (50626672)
An extensive history of Sister Francis Hines can be found on the Virtual War Memorial site.
Inscription
In
Loving Memory
Of
Sister Francis Emma Hines
Died at Bulawayo
Aug 7th 1900
Erected by her Fellow sisters
And
1st Victorian Bushmen's Contingent,
Also, the Hospital staff.
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