In Fiction
The character Diana Marfleet in the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies had been engaged to one of Aboukir's officers, killed when the ship was sunk. It was this loss which made her take up the job of a nurse tending wounded soldiers, and specifically give long and devoted treatment to the book's protagonist, severely wounded in a later part of the war, and eventually fall in love with him.
Read more about this topic: HMS Aboukir (1900)
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