Grey Angels!
8 April 1915
A large crowd came together on Wellington’s Glasgow Wharf. Fifty New Zealand nurses were boarding the SS Rotorua. They were on their way to the war in Europe. It was a vast and boundless ocean. The nurses landed in Egypt where the soldiers from Gallipoli were taken to. They work long and hard hours to treat the injured. Some patients were sick with dysentery and pneumonia. Others had serious bullet or shrapnel wounds or broken bones. Later that year the weather got very cold and soldiers came with terrible frostbites. Patients that recovered were sent back to war. Those who were very sick were sent home on the hospital ship. After a year in Egypt some of the nurses were sent to work in New Zealand hospital at Brockenhurst. Nurses were sent wherever they were needed but never to the front line.
Glossary
Dysentery-Infection of the intestines resulting in blood and mucus in the feces.
Pneumonia-Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection
Shrapnel-Fragments of a bomb.
Frostbites-When the tissue skin of the body freeze.
inflammation-When parts of the body becomes reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful, especially as a reaction to injury or infection.
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