Dr. Wendy Maddocks RN

Friday tends to be my allocated research day & I thought I’d share a shot of my screens - all the excel tabs relate to the thousands of bits of data I’ve collated on my WW1 nurses & putting finishing touches to my next key article #HistNursing

Margaret Thompson Sydenham cemetery Christchurch

NZANS Margaret Thompson died 1921 from TB contracted during her short service. She battled for pension payments & suitable care. Sadly she died before she could be in a sanatorium but had treatment at home at her request. She’s buried around the corner from me. May she RIP. I often say hi to her😢🇳🇿

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Indeed and the wives at home suffered terribly

Madame Yvonne’s was the ‘safe’ brothel for NZ soldiers to visit in Paris in WW1. This Canadian public health message about ‘Dick’ & his adventures teara.govt.nz/en/video/272... #sexualhealth

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This nurse drug addiction, murder mystery sounds like a script for Midsomer murders… but no it’s real life 1930s - a sad but interesting #HistNursing read paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/P...

So very sad Tom and here the world is again facing trauma. Mankind doesn’t learn

Indeed- the nurses not so well known or expected

She was a nurse. In my limited research so far I’ve found quite a range on information - I’m going to explore how they were reported in the media

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Very confronting details on her death cert😢

Another nurse suicide to add to my next piece of work. She hadn’t been on my radar as she hadn’t served overseas - her family lost 1 soldier in ww1 and 1 nurse on the Marquette - the family grief would be immeasurable 😢😢

Time sneaks up and 1 minute you are 17 and training to be a nurse , Nek minnit it’s time for the 40th anniversary reunion… 😱 kaitiaki.org.nz/article/end-...

A simple graph showing the impact on the population of NZ of the 1st and 2nd world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic

Gave a wee lecturer this morning to the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social online winter course on the social consciousness of Gallipoli for the ANZACS and society afterwards - another perspective of what war means #history

Wonderful you globetrotter

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Are in WA at moment??

I’ve had a look at a digital version at some point 🙂🙏

No they weren’t recorded but I believe the proceedings will be published in due course. The Freyberg one was fascinating

Battle of Manners Street - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... one of the speakers at the Military Hidtory conference talked on this last week, interesting bit of NZ #WW2 history long covered up for many years. We weren’t going tolerate the racist 🇺🇸marines or be treated with disrespect as a country #history #milhistory

History is everywhere - this info board at Ernle Clark reserve tells the story of a great NZ aviator who made the 2nd solo flight from UK to NZ digitalnz.org/records?i%5B...

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Wonderful!

📸 2Grave of Dr AA Martin DSO, MID Boer war veteran, killed 18 Sept 1816 at Flers, treated at Amiens and buried at St Pierre Cemetary Amiens. His friend Nurse Elsie Grey served at Amiens and visited his grave and sent photos home to his family

Image 1 Dr Arthur Anderson Martin 3/1737 who also served with the Red Cross no 3 Field ambulance since 1914. 📸 on line cenotaph

Rabbit holing- whilst researching PN hospital nurses’ home for an article I came across this desperately sad story of Dr Arthur Martin from PN who was killed at Flers whilst caring for injured at friend. His letters hold no punches paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/KT… . He DOW abdo, leg, head

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I’m sharing a sneak of the data from my #WW1 #HistNursing premature death research🇳🇿. I’d love to know if anyone doing for other countries. The NZANS had rates of 128x suicide, 1100x cancer, + direct relationship between service illness & later death. More to come in article #nursingresearch