More Info →Plaque to the Marquette Nurses - Education Centre, Palmerston North Hospital

Plaque to Mabel Jamieson and Marion Sinclair Brown who drowned on October 26 1915 when the British transport ship SS Marquette was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea.  Mabel and Marion were among 10 members of the New Zealand Army Service killed.  Private Clarence Perrin of Palmerston North also died and three Palmerston North bank clerks were among the Ambulance Corp rescued from the boat.  This plaque is in the Education Centre of the Palmerston North Hospital.