[4] While there, the FFNC nurses were exposed to intensive artillery bombardments which destroyed nearby buildings, forcing them to live in cellars.
In October 1916, both Lind and Hitchcock resigned from the FFNC and left France to travel home to New Zealand on the hospital ship Maheno.
In May 1917, she enlisted in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service; she spent six months working at Trentham military camp in Wellington then left in October 1917 to return to England.
[4] On her return to New Zealand, Hitchcock spent some time nursing shell-shocked men at Queen Mary Hospital at Hanmer Springs.
[2] During World War II Hitchcock worked in nurse management with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Rongotai, Wellington.