Background
She was born in Duvauchelle, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand in 1903, and died in Henderson in 1977.
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Rene Shadbolt
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She was a nurse at a military convalescent hospital in World World War II, and then from 1949 to 1967 was matron of the Hokianga Hospital in Rawene, Northland. She was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services in 1969. She remarried (briefly) to George MacLennan in 1944.
A nursing scholarship for trainee nurses from the Hokianga area, the Rene Mary MacLennan Scholarship, was established in her memory.
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New Zealand