Cora Beattie Roberton, RRC (née Anderson; 4 March 1881 – 24 September 1962) was a decorated New Zealand nurse who ran several Allied hospitals in the United Kingdom during the First World War.

[1][2][3] On 9 November 1902, Anderson was rescued on the last lifeboat to depart the passenger steamer Elingamite that sank 35 miles off the coast of New Zealand.

She was rescued while standing in waist-deep water on the sinking steamer, and spent an estimated 25 hours, cramped and extremely cold in the open boat, before it found dry land.

They soon left England to staff a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, where they treated many hundreds of soldiers wounded during the Gallipoli campaign.

[1] In 1917, the Minister of Public Health recommended that Anderson receive specialized training to administer anesthetics, which at that time, was given to patients only by doctors and not by nurses.

[1] Due to her own failing health in 1919, Anderson was sent on leave to New Zealand and was discharged from her official duties even though she remained on the Service and Temporary Reserve of the NZANS until her retirement in 1921.