Edith Rudd

Rudd was born in Northampton, England, the daughter of George Llewellyn Lewis and Mary Hunter née Littlejohn. She trained as a nurse at Whanganui Hospital in the North Island of New Zealand. ==Career==

Rudd worked as a nurse at Rostrevor Hospital in Gisborne, in the North Island of New Zealand, until 1915, when she enlisted with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. In December that year she sailed from Wellington on the ship SS Marama. She served in Egypt until 1918, nursing soldiers injured on the Western Front. Rudd and the Maunganui sailed from Wellington to Suez in April 1941 with a group of 20 New Zealand nurses. Honours In the 1944 King's Birthday Honours, Rudd received the highest military nursing award, the Royal Red Cross (First Class). In 1953, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. In 1961, she was presented with the Florence Nightingale Medal by the Red Cross. In 2013, Rudd's Florence Nightingale Medal was loaned to the Marlborough RSA for display in its rooms. == Personal life ==

In 1927, Rudd was engaged to a Mr Nees, chairman of Wairau Hospital. Rudd married William George Rudd in 1946. Edith Rudd died in Blenheim on 7 February 1967 and is buried at Omaka Cemetery. ==References==