Louise Elizabeth Brandon

[2][3] She sailed on board the Moeraki with nurses Evelyn Brooke, and Fanny Wilson.

[3] While the climate conditions deemed challenging at times for the nurses, they completed their service returning in early 1915.

[3] Brandon spent the remainder of the War alongside nurse, Louise Alexa McNie working as theatre-sisters on New Zealand hospital ships, such as SS Maheno and SS Marama and headed for the front.

Wounded soldiers from Gallipoli were treated or transported to military hospitals in Malta or Alexandria.

Her third and final overseas posting was on the SS Corinthic where she was the Matron of the New Zealand Officer's Convalescence Hospital in Brighton, England.

WWI nurses, taken on the steps of the Parliamentary Library. 1st row fifth from the left is Louise Brandon.