Margaret Rogers (nurse)

Margaret Rogers (11 December 1887 – 23 October 1915) was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

She volunteered to go to Vanuatu as a nursing missionary, to assist with the establishment of a hospital there, however a natural disaster destroyed the area she was to go to.

[2] In July 1915, she enlisted in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service and left Wellington on board the SS Maheno.

Her body was found in a lifeboat with that of fellow nurse Helena Isdell, and four men, which washed ashore near the Greek town of Zagora.

[2][3][6] Rogers is named on the Mikra British Cemetery in Greece and in the Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital.