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The ship carried many injured service personnel and 65 nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service from the 2/13th Australian General Hospital, as well as civilian men, women and children. [1] The ship was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank. [1] Two nurses were killed in the bombing; the rest were scattered among the rescue boats to wash up ...
An estimated 150 British nurses were killed during World War 1. Of those killed 40 were Scottish. Four of the nurses were killed by enemy action including Agnes Murdoch Climie, a staff nurse who trained at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. [53]
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.
Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian war film directed by Bruce Beresford, about a group of English, American, Dutch, and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It stars Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Julianna Margulies, Jennifer Ehle, Cate Blanchett, and Elizabeth Spriggs. The film ...
In 1943 AHS Centaur was sunk by a Japanese submarine. It was a hospital ship and over 260 lives were lost including eleven nurses. Australia was outraged and Hughes-Jones established the Centaur War Nurses' Memorial Trust and she became its honorary secretary. [4] One of the nurses killed had been a deputy matron to Hughes-Jones. [5]
Clarice Halligan (17 September 1904 – 16 February 1942) was an Australian nurse and missionary. During the Second World War she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service, and while a prisoner of war was killed by the Japanese in the Bangka Island massacre.
On 12 February, six Japanese dive-bombers attacked the ship and its convoy. Anti-aircraft fire shot down one aircraft and damaged another, which broke off from the attack. The Empire Star was set afire in three places and several people on board were killed. Anderson was among the Australian nurses who tended the wounded below decks.
Australia had declared war on Japan and on 19 February 1942 the Bombing of Darwin took place. It was the largest attack ever on Australia. [3] [4] White was later to remark that her nurses worked without a break for 36 hours as they dealt with the resulting casualties. [1] She was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant colonel. [5]