Clarice Isobel HALLIGAN

Clarice Isobel HALLIGAN. Nursing Sister (Lieutenant) VFX47776 AANS, attached to 2/10th Australian General Hospital.
Born 17 September 1904 at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia to Joseph Patrick and Emilie Watson. Halligan, of 167 Derby Road, Kew. Victoria. Australia. Enlisted 11 July 1940 at Melbourne, Victoria Australia aged 35 years and 8 months. Her mother was her next of kin. Embarked Australia bound for Singapore 30 July 1941 disembarked at Singapore 17 August 1941.
She and sixty-four 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 Bangka 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 nurses were ordered to march into the sea and stand in a row where they were shot from behind. She was aged 37. Only one nurse survived, Sister Vivian Bullwinkel.
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore