The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Four Australian army nurses, eleven Australian civilian nurses and one Red Cross worker in Manila on way back to Australia. They were captured at Rabaul, New Britain, held ther for six months at a German Mission then taken to Japan. From July 1942 to July 1944 they were held at Yokohama Yacht Club, then for a year at Totsuka. Identified personnel: Lieutenant D C Keast, Captain K I A Parker, Lieutenant L M Whyte, Lieutenant M C Cullen, (all AANS), Major G B Massingham of 3 Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group.
Portrait of ex-POW nurses Captain Kay Isabel Alice "Tootie" Parker (left) and Lieutenant Mavis Cullen, both AANS, leaving Adelaide for Perth after a few days' holiday. They were among six nursing sist
Manila, Philippines. 4 September 1945. Nurses in Manila, after release from internment at Yokohama, at a prisoner of war (POW) processing unit on their way home. The larger group of which they were pa
Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) at Mascot Aerodrome with members of their families soon after their arrival back in Australia after being Prisoners of War of the Japanese fo
Emotional family welcome home at Mascot Airport for a former prisoner of war Captain Kay Parker (right) AANS. Captain Parker was one of six Australian Army nurses captured at Rabaul in 1942. along wit
Manila, Philippines. 4 September 1945. A group of nurses and civilians in Manila, after release from internment at Yokohama, at a prisoner of war (POW) processing unit on their way home. The group is
Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese, taking leave of family and friends who met them on their arrival at Mascot airport. They are car
