Mary Dorothea CLARKE. Nursing Sister NFX70938 AANS attached to 10 Australian General Hospital.
Born 20 July 1911 to Percival Henry and Flora Clarke, of Mount Brace, Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia. Passenger on the Vyner Brooke was sunk by Japanese Air Bombardment.
Died 14 February 1942 aged 30
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore. Included in the Nurses’ War Memorial Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London
Some notes from her service record -
Enlisted 07 January 1941 at Victoria Barracks, Sydney, New South Wales aged 28 for Permanent Home Service duties with the AANS and was posted the same day to Camp Hospital Rutherford Sydney and 22 February 1941 to C.D.S. Tamworth. 24 April 1941 she was summoned to join the Australian Imperial Force for overseas posting.
30 April 1941 at Recruiting Training Depot, RAS Showground in Moore Park, Sydney
19 May 1941 she embarked with 10 AGH from Sydney, New South Wales bound for Singapore, disembarking at Singapore 09 June 1941. 10 June 1941 she was attached to 10 AGH, 29 November 1941 attached to 13 AGH.
25 January 1942 re-joined her unit, 10 AGH from 13 AGH.
12 February 1942 she and many other, left Singapore of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke bound for Australia. Reported missing, 14 February and executed with other nurses by Japanese soldiers as they stood in a row in water off Banka Island.
Link to record -
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4647140
