12 Sinking of the SS Marquette

Sir Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland was a New Zealand surgeon.

Jean Neill Erwin was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse, masseuse, and army nursing administrator. She was born in Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand on 25 January 1890. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1945 King's Birthday Honours just after her retirement from the military. She was an elder at Knox Church in Christchurch.

Catherine Anne Fox was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

Nona Mildred Hildyard was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died in the sinking of SS Marquette in 1915.

Helena Kathleen Isdell was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died in the sinking of SS Marquette in 1915.

Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

SS Marquette was a British troopship of 7,057 tons which was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea 36 nautical miles (67 km) south of Salonica, Greece on 23 October 1915 by SM U-35, with the loss of 167 lives.

The Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, is registered as a Category I heritage building. The chapel is significant as New Zealand's first hospital chapel, and as the country's only World War I memorial solely dedicated to women, and is worldwide the only chapel dedicated to nurses.

Mary Helen Rae was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

Lorna Aylmer Rattray was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

Margaret Rogers was a New Zealand nurse who served in the First World War and died when the SS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in 1915.

Ebenezer Teichelmann, known as 'the little Doctor' to his friends, was an Australian-born surgeon, mountaineer, explorer, conservationist and photographer in New Zealand. He was a survivor of the sinking of the SS Marquette in 1915. He achieved 26 first ascents of mountains and seven first ascents, or crossings, of passes, cols, or saddles, and is credited with reviving climbing in New Zealand when the sport was almost dead. A keen photographer, he used a full-plate glass camera, which was hauled up many mountains. His photographs were used in books and advertisements, and helped to achieve conservation status for West Coast reserves.