Female New Zealand Prisoner of War Died In Germany 1941
Sept 26, 2020 22:35:49 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 26, 2020 22:35:49 GMT 12
I found this a surprise, from the Press on 8th of December 1941.
DEATH IN GERMANY
MISS E. A. M. HARCOURT, O.B.E.
Advice has been received by Mr C. J. S. Harcourt, of Wellington, that his sister, Miss Eveline Alice Marion Harcourt, O.B.E, has died at Liebenau, Wurtemburg, Germany, where she was a prisoner of war, having been captured when the Port Hobart was sunk by a German raider off Porto Rico on November 24, 1940.
Miss Harcourt was the elder daughter of the late John Bateman Harcourt, and was born at Wellington on April 9, 1878. She was educated at Wellington and at Mrs Bowen’s well-known school in Christchurch. She was returning to New Zealand from England by the Port Hobart and when that ship sank, she lost practically all her possessions. She spent 17 weeks on the raider with makeshift clothing and was moved from place to place in France for some weeks after being landed from the raider.
As she had never been robust these hardships undermined her health, and after she had been in a German prison camp for a time she was sent to Wesermuende for hospital treatment. She was in hospital for 19 weeks and stated in her letter that she was being well and kindly treated. She was then transferred to Liebenau, where she died.
DEATH IN GERMANY
MISS E. A. M. HARCOURT, O.B.E.
Advice has been received by Mr C. J. S. Harcourt, of Wellington, that his sister, Miss Eveline Alice Marion Harcourt, O.B.E, has died at Liebenau, Wurtemburg, Germany, where she was a prisoner of war, having been captured when the Port Hobart was sunk by a German raider off Porto Rico on November 24, 1940.
Miss Harcourt was the elder daughter of the late John Bateman Harcourt, and was born at Wellington on April 9, 1878. She was educated at Wellington and at Mrs Bowen’s well-known school in Christchurch. She was returning to New Zealand from England by the Port Hobart and when that ship sank, she lost practically all her possessions. She spent 17 weeks on the raider with makeshift clothing and was moved from place to place in France for some weeks after being landed from the raider.
As she had never been robust these hardships undermined her health, and after she had been in a German prison camp for a time she was sent to Wesermuende for hospital treatment. She was in hospital for 19 weeks and stated in her letter that she was being well and kindly treated. She was then transferred to Liebenau, where she died.
