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In this talk, family historian Iris Taylor takes us through a brief history of New Zealand nursing up to the First World War. Covering such incidents as the torpedoing of the Marquette which killed New Zealand Nurses, she describes her 2015 pilgrimage to remember these women.

Image: New Zealand Nurses, 1916-1917. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 7-A15887.

Music: Ketsa. When it all falls.