Dunedin photographer William Smart traded his camera for a medical corps uniform during World War I, only to lose his life a few months later when the HMTS Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea. 📷 🚢 🌺

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What should have been a celebration of his 25th birthday instead became the final chapter for John Turnbull Ross, a chemist from South Otago, when the troopship HMT Marquette was sunk after a sudden torpedo attack in the dark waters of the Mediterranean. 🌺 🥀

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Honouring the memory of New Zealand World War I soldier Bassell Saxe Fricker, lost in the tragic SS Marquette sinking of 1915. #NZHistory #WWI #NZMedicalCorps #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryHistory #SSMarquette #MarquetteDisaster #No1NZStationaryHospital #frickerfamily
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