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Bessie WILMOTT Far right
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- Credit photo to Australian War Memorial Group photo Australian Army Nurses.
Auth. When I look at at this photograph of group of mates enjoying themselves I know what is going to happen to them, if only they knew. R.I.P.
Bessie WILMOTT. Nursing Sister (Lieutenant) WFX3439 Australian Army Nursing Service. 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station. Born 24 May 1913 at Perth, Western Australia to John Henry and Clarice Wilmott, of Perth, Western Australia step daughter of Lilian Wilmott, of 6 Gardner Street, Como, Western Australia. Enlisted 14 August 1940 at Perth, Western Australia aged 27 years. Embarked Singapore bound for Australia 12 February 1942 on Vyner Brooke. Murdered by Japanese troops on Radji Beach at Bangka Island, 16 February 1942, aged 28 years after surviving the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke. Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore.
Australian Nurses Memorial, Radji Beach
Sixty five Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brooke from Singapore, three days before the fall of Malaya. The Vyner Brooke was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in Banka Strait on 14...
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