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[Interview with Ida Willis, former Matron-in-Chief New Zealand Nursing Corps, who served in both world wars].

Description:
Neville Webber introduces the recording: "With me now I have L. I. G. Willis who was Matron-in-Chief of the New Zealand Army Nursing Corps and who has a unique link in that she served through World War I and also right through World War II until she retired as Matron-in-Chief, in 1946". Miss Willis tells how she began her service in the Great War on August 27, 1914, in Fiji, where she signed o...
Display date:
1966
Location:
Fiji
Format:
Sound
Collections:
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Contributors:
RNZ Collection
Content partner:
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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Online
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