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Irene Melville Drummond (Right)

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Aug 26, 2018

Mona Margaret Anderson TAIT...

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Dorothy Gwendoline Howard ELMES

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Clarice Isobel HALLIGAN 2nd Left

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Aug 25, 2018

Australian Nurses Memorial, Radji Beach

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Aug 25, 2018

21 Nurses Executed Australian Nurses on Radji Beach

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Aug 25, 2018

Sixty five Australian nurses, wounded service men and 250 civilian men, women and children were evacuated on Vyner Brooke from Singapore on the 12 February 1942. The ship was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft of Banka Island east of Sumatra on the 14 February 1942. Some of the survivors reached the island only to be captured by the Imperial Japanese Army Some were imprisoned in Palembang and Muntok POW camps others were massacred including twenty-one nurses.
On the 16 February 1942 the Japanese were ordered the nurses bandage their eyes and walk into the sea at Banka Island, Indonesia and stand in a row where they were shot from behind. Some nurses half dead on the beaches were finished off with the bayonet.
Sister Vivian Bullwinkel was the only survivor.

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