After qualifying, Gorman nursed at
Wellington Public Hospital. In 1915, she enlisted in the
New Zealand Army Nursing Service and left
Wellington in May that year on board the
SS Marama. The ship sailed to Sydney, and then to Egypt. The contingent of nurses worked in a stationary hospital there. In October 1915 Gorman was on board the SS
Marquette when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk. She was injured during the launching of the lifeboats, and realising that she was unlikely to survive, gave her lifebelt to another nurse.
Recognition A commemorative plaque to Gorman, and fellow
Marquette casualties
Catherine Fox and
Isabel Clark, was placed in Waimate Hospital. The hospital also named its women's ward
Marquette in memory of the three nurses. She is also remembered in the
Five Sisters window at
York Minster in York, England. ==References==