Isabel Clark

In memoriam

New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915. Clark was born in 1885, the youngest of six children born to Christina and Hugh Clark. Her parents were Scottish settlers and the family lived at Ardgowan, near Oamaru, in the South Island of New Zealand.[2] She attended Oamaru South School and Waitaki Girls' High School. She completed her nursing training at Waimate Hospital and Oamaru Hospital. After qualifying, Clark was a nurse at a private hospital in Auckland. Waimate Hospital plaque to nurses who died on the SS Marquette In 1915, Clark enlisted in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service for service in the First World War. She left Wellington on board the SS Maheno and sailed to Port Said, Egypt. She joined a contingent of nurses working in a stationary hospital there. In October 1915 Clark was on board the SS Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk. Survivors reported that Clark and fellow nurse Marion Brown comforted each other on the deck of the ship before holding hands and leaping into the sea together. Neither Clark nor Brown was seen again. A commemorative plaque to Clark, and fellow Marquette casualties Mary Gorman and Catherine Fox, was placed in Waimate Hospital. When the hospital closed in 1996, the plaque was moved to a display at the Waimate Museum. A memorial oak tree was planted in Oamaru. There are also plaques at the Oamaru Hospital, Ardgowan School and Waitaki Girls' High School. Waitaki Girls' holds an annual essay writing competition in her name. Clark is named on the Mikra British Cemetery in Greece and in the Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital. She is also remembered in the Five Sisters Window at York Minster in York, England. ∼ Service Number: 22/108 Unit: New Zealand Army Nursing Service (Staff Nurse) Next of Kin: Miss Clark (sister), Ardgowan, Oamaru, New Zealand Embarkation Body: Hospital Ship No. 1, "Maheno" Embarkation Place: Wellington, New Zealand Embarkment Date: 10 July 1915 Transport: Hospital Ship. No. 1, 1st Voyage from NZ Vessel: Maheno Destinations: Suez, Alexandria, Egypt Daughter Of Hugh & Christina Clark, and sister of Alexander David Clark. Trained for nursing in Oamaru; she was one of the first NZANS nurses to leave New Zealand. Isabel Clark was one of the New Zealand nurses who died when the Marquette was torpedoed and sank in October 1915. The first group NZANS nurses arrived in Alexandria on 16 June 1915, the second on 21 May and the third on 10 July. The Marquette was a British Merchant ship of 7,057 tons. It sank when a torpedo launched from a submarine hit it 36 miles south of Salonika Bay. Twenty nine crew and 182 troops were lost. Ten of those who died were New Zealand nurses who had been working at No.1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital in Port Said in October 1915 when they were ordered to prepare to go to Lemnos. The hospital was to be set up there to care for casualties being brought back from the Dardanelles. The Transport Ship Marquette took on board officers and men of the New Zealand Medical Corps, 36 New Zealand Army Nursing Staff, 610 officers and men of 29th Divisional Ammunition Column , 541 mules and some ammunition in mid October sailed for Salonika. The French torpedo destroyer Tirailleur joined the convoy on 22 October which gave credence to the idea that there was a real danger of being attacked by German submarines in the Mediterranean. The torpedo destroyer left the convoy that night and at 9.15 am on 23 October the Marquette was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side and began to list. Within about 15 minutes she sank. Nurses lost their lives in the evacuation as lifeboats tipped over as they were lowered into the sea, some boats falling on others, with some being left on the ship and going down with her. Auckland War Memorial Museum Scars on the Heart WWI "Nurses and Volunteers " display. Display item is a Roll of Honour of Nurses who died while on active service. Clark was born in 1885, the youngest of six children born to Christina and Hugh Clark. Her parents were Scottish settlers and the family lived at Ardgowan, near Oamaru, in the South Island of New Zealand. She attended Oamaru South School and Waitaki Girls' High School. She completed her nursing training at Waimate Hospital and Oamaru Hospital. After qualifying, Clark was a nurse at a private hospital in Auckland. In 1915, Clark enlisted in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service for service in the First World War. She left Wellington on board the SS Maheno and sailed to Port Said, Egypt. She joined a contingent of nurses working in a stationary hospital there. In October 1915 Clark was on board the SS Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk. Survivors reported that Clark and fellow nurse Marion Brown comforted each other on the deck of the ship before holding hands and leaping into the sea together. Neither Clark nor Brown was seen again. Who lost her life by sinking of transport "Marquett" in the Aegean Sea

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