Nona Mildred Hildyard (4 November 1888 – 23 October 1915) was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died in the sinking of SS Marquette in 1915.

[1] After her initial training, Hildyard worked for a Christchurch doctor, A.C. Sandston, and later at Nurse Turner's private hospital in Woolston.

She left Wellington in July on the SS Maheno, travelling with 69 other New Zealand nurses, and arrived in Port Said, Egypt, in August.

On 19 October, the hospital unit boarded the SS Marquette in Alexandria, but four days later it was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine.

[4] In 1916, the people of Lyttelton raised money and commissioned artist Richard Wallwork to paint a portrait of Hildyard, which was presented to the Borough Council in 1917.