Peggy Everett FARMANER

Peggy Everett FARMANER. Nursing Sister (Lieutenant) WFX3438 AANS, (formerly AANS W233413) with 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station.
Born 8 March 1913 at Claremont, Western Australia to George Fred and Flora Susan Farmaner, of Claremont, Western Australia. Her father was her next of kin.
Some notes from her service records.

Enlisted 14 August 1940 Perth, Western Australia aged 27 years and was attached to 110 Australian General Hospital.
12 November 1940 appointed Staff Nurse and taken on strength with 2/4th A.C.C.S.
Granted embarkation leave from 14 to 21 January 1941
10 February 1941 with staff and other nurses of 2/4th A.C.C.S, embarked Australia on Queen Mary bound for Singapore, disembarked Singapore 18 February 1941 and set up the hospital at Kajang.
20 February she was detached for duty with 2/9th Field Ambulance
20 August 1941 returned to duty with 2/4th A.C.C.S. at Kajang.
18-19th September 1941 granted leave to Singapore and rejoined her unit after leave.
20 January 1942 duty with 10th A.G.H returning to her unit 31 January 1942
06 February 1942 she was returned for duty with 10th A.G.H.
12 February 1942 she and many others were evacuated from Singapore bound for Australia. She was later executed by Japanese soldiers.

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 28. Only one nurse survived, Sister Vivian Bullwinkel.
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore.


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