Nona Mildred Hildyard

In memoriam

HILDYARD, NONA MILDRED, Nurse, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, daughter of William Hildyard, of Lyttleton, New Zealand, by his wife, Betsy Ann, daughter of John (and Harriet) Libballie; born Lyttleton aforesaid, 4 Nov. 1890; educated Lyttleton Public Schools; entered the Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, where she soon attracted the attention of her superiors, and on the outbreak of war was one of the nurses specially selected by the Government to go to the Front with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. She left for Egypt 11 July, 1915, and was for some time engaged in the Base Hospital, Port Said. When the New Zealand troops were being transferred to Salonika, she sailed for that port with the other nurses of the hospital, and was lost on the troopship Marquette, when that ship was torpedoed in the Gulf of Salonika 23 Oct. 1915. Doctors who were eye-witnesses of the disaster affirm that she displayed wonderful courage and fortitude, and sang "Tipperary" and "Are we downhearted? No!" to the last to keep up the spirits of her comrades. Source: Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

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