Edith Mary Rudd

Edith Mary Rudd (née Lewis; 14 February 1882 – 7 May 1967) was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse. She served in both World War I and World War II, and received the Florence Nightingale Medal from the Red Cross in 1961.

Early life 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. 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. Rudd married William George Rudd in 1946.

Edith Rudd died in Blenheim on 7 February 1967 and is buried at Omaka Cemetery.