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Haurongo: Willis, Lizzie Ida Grace

New Zealand nurses in Apia, Samoa, during the First World War

New Zealand nurses in Apia, Samoa, during the First World War

When the New Zealand Expeditionary Force took control of German Samoa in August 1914, seven nurses went with them to replace the German nurses at Apia hospital. Among them were Ida Willis and Evelyn Brooke (left and second from left, back row), Fanny Wilson (right, back row), and Vida MacLean (left, front row).

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, I. G. Willis Album (PAColl-1682)

Reference: 1/2-148862; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jan Rodgers. 'Willis, Lizzie Ida Grace', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/550/new-zealand-nurses-in-apia-samoa-during-the-first-world-war (accessed 4 June 2026).