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(Click on Index Name) BELL - Thelma (McEachern) BLANCH - Jessie (Eaton-Lee) BULLWINKEL - Vivian (Statham) CLINCH - Von CULLEN - Mavis (Cation) GIBSON - Mary (Everard) JEFFREY - Betty McLEOD - Maureen (Spicer) ORAM - Wilma (Young) RAYNER - Jan (Mills) SAVAGE - Nell SETCHELL - Margaret (Hamilton) SIMONS - "Jessie" Elizabeth (Hookway) TWOHILL - Sr. M. Berenice WHYTE - Lorna (Johnston) |
(Click on Index Name) BANGKA ISLAND -
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The
Forgotten Prisoners of Rabaul:
Eleven civilian
and six army nurses who were
taken to Japan as Prisoners of War from Rabaul in 1942 and
who lived
through appalling conditions there 1942 to 1945. Click
here for the story.
Mavis
Cullen (L) and Kay Parker
Rabaul nurses, later POWs
in Japan
Photo from the personal collection
of Mavis (Cullen) Cation
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The
Wah Sui
Incident-
named after the rust bucket of a Chinese ship that took six Australian
nurses and 450 severely wounded soldiers out of Singapore in the 1942
evacuation,
only to abandon the nurses in Batavia, leaving them in the path of the
advancing Japanese army. This is a vital part of women's history.Click
here for a full eye-witness account.
Aileen Irving (Charge Sister), Veronica Dwyer, Vi Haig, Iva Craig, Molly Campbell and Thelma Bell |
The sinking of the Vyner Brooke
in Bangka Strait 1942
A collection of
eye-witness accounts to add
to women's history, stories of bravery and tragedy. Click
here.
Women's history in the perilous
journey of the Empire Star:
Meanwhile aboard
another evacuation ship the
"Empire Star" two of the nurses protected their patients with their own
bodies when the ship was attacked. A brave episode in women's history!
They were later decorated for their bravery. Click
here for Margaret Hamilton's eye witness account.
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The "White
Coolies" - 32 Australian army nurses taken Prisoner of War
after their
evacuation ship was wrecked. The women spent 1942 to 1945 in prison
camps
in Sumatra and on Bangka Island. 
Eight
of them did not survive the conditions. Individual stories are told in
this inspiring episode in women's history. Click
here
to
read that of one of the survivors, Wilma Oram Young:
Wilma Oram (pictured).Photo from the personal collection of Wilma (Oram) Young
A full biography of Wilma (Oram)
Young "A Woman's War" will be published in 2003 by New Holland
Publishers.
Meanwhile read the short word portrait and enjoy meeting a remarkable
and
very brave woman.
Don't miss
reading the remarkable
diaries of Betty Jeffrey:"White
Coolies"(Angus
& Robertson, 1954)
Watch out for "A Woman's
War" biography of Wilma Oram Young,
available soon
through this Web Site!
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The Bangka Island massacre.The 21 Australian army nurses who were massacred on the beach at Bangka Island on 16 February 1942. Sole survivor Vivian Bullwinkel also survived the prison camps and told the full story. Click here for her eye-witness account.
Civilian
Nurses - Australian Surgical Teams in Vietnam:
A
more recent event in women's
history: CN-ASTV is a
group of the civilian nurses
of the Vietnam War who volunteered to go and help the civilian
Vietnamese
victims but found themselves mixed up in that thoroughly messy war.
Click here
to read some eye-witness accounts.
Books and Papers:
Where
we know of books and papers
that are available on any of the above subjects, lists of titles,
authors
and publishers can be found on the applicable linked pages.
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Australia
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This list will continue to expand. Please keep referring to it. Adams, Margaret Lamont . Anderson, Margaret . Angell, Dot . Ashton, Jean . Bell, Thelma . Blake, Pat . Blanche, Jessie .Bullwinkel, Vivian . Callaghan, Eileen .Campbell, Molly . Clinch, Yvonne . Cullen, Mavis . Davis, Win . Delforce, C.E.M. .Deal, Patricia .Dryburgh, Margaret . Dwyer, Molly . Everard, Ruby Clarice .Everard, K. Mary . Floyd, Jean . Freeman, Dot . Greer, Jenny . Gunther, Pat . Hanna, Margaret "Jean" . Hannah, Mavis . Harper, Iole . James, Nesta . Jeffrey, Betty .McFarlane, Mary Hamilton . Mittelhauser, "Mitz" . Oram, Wilma . Parker, Kay .Rayner, Jan .Savage, Nell Simons, Elizabeth . Setchell, Margaret . Singleton, Rene . McLeod Spicer, Maureen Syer, Mickey . Torney, Veronica . Trotter, Flo . Tweddell, Joyce .Twohill, Sr M. Berenice . Whyte,Lorna . Wilton, Mona |
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