My grandfather, Robert Findlay Allan, medical student, was in the New Zealand Medical Corps from October 1917 to May 1919.
He embarked from Wellington on 31 January 1918 on the Marama, Hospital Ship No. 2, on its fifth voyage from New Zealand.
The ship's destination is noted as "Sea". By this stage of the war the hospital ships were sailing to England to clear the NZ hospitals in the United Kingdom and patients were carried to various ports en route as necessary, so he would have made two trips to England and back.
~ Janet Gootjes
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