MATRON OF MAUNGANUI

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 6

MATRON OF MAUNGANUI

MISS E. M. LEWIS APPOINTED. GREAT WAR NURSING SERVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Miss E. M. Lewis, matron of the Wairau Hospital. has been appointed matron of the New Zealand hospital ship Maunganui. Yesterday Miss Lewis was granted six months' leave of absence by the Marlborough Hospital Board at the request of the Government. Miss Lewis had a lengthy period of nursing service in the Great War. On the outbreak she joined the Red Cross in England and sailed for Egypt in the New Zealand hospital ship Marama, late in 1915. She received an appointment to the staff of the Anglo-Ameri-can Hospital in Cairo. Later she was transferred to the 27th general hospital and was posted to the hospital ship Assaye. She made several trips between Suez. India and East Africa. Miss Lewis was the only New Zealand sister attached to a unit proceeding to Palestine late in 1917, when she was attached to the 45th Stationary Hospital at El Arish. Later she served on the No. 56 hospital train, running between Jerusalem and Kantara. Miss Lewis was attached to the general hospital in Alexandria when the armistice was signed and remained there until 1919, when she rejoined the hospital ship Assaye. She completed her military nursing at Trentham in 1921 when she was appointed to the Wairau Hospital.