Mary Gorman

Mary Gorman (10 May 1881 – 23 October 1915) was a New Zealand nurse who served in World War I and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

[3] In 1915, she enlisted in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service and left Wellington in May that year on board the SS Marama.

In October 1915 Gorman was on board the SS Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk.

[4] A commemorative plaque to Gorman, and fellow Marquette casualties Catherine Fox and Isabel Clark, was placed in Waimate Hospital.

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

Waimate Hospital plaque to nurses who died on the SS Marquette