Ettie Rout
Ettie Rout | |
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Rout from the frontispiece of Safe Marriage: A Return to Sanity | |
| Born | Ettie Annie Rout 24 February 1877 Launceston, Tasmania |
| Died | 17 September 1936 (aged 59) Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
| Other names | Ettie Hornibrook |
| Known for | preventing sexually transmitted disease amongst soldiers |
Ettie Annie Rout (24 February 1877 – 17 September 1936) was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events she became persona non grata in New Zealand. She married Frederick Hornibrook on 3 May 1920, after which she was Ettie Hornibrook. They had no children and later separated. She died in 1936, and was buried in the Cook Islands.