Rose Hinchey

Rose Moore Hinchey, RRC (21 June 1910 – 4 August 1981) was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse.

She was the eldest of four children of William Hinchey and Henrietta Goetze (née Thompson).

[2] On completing her training, Hinchey nursed at a hospital in Bowen Street in Wellington.

[3] In 1936, she travelled to England and worked at an obstetric hospital alongside fellow Southland expatriate Charles Read.

In January 1939, she was posted to a military hospital in Bombay (present-day Mumbai), India.