The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of TFX6012 Lieutenant Wilhemina Rosalie Raymont, 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station (2/4th CCS), Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brook from Singapore, three days before the fall of Malaya. The Vyner Brooke was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in Banka Strait on 14 February 1942. Of the sixty five nurses on board, twelve were lost at sea, twenty two survived the sinking and were washed ashore on Radji Beach, Banka Island where they surrendered to the Japanese, along with twenty five British soldiers. On 16 February 1942 the group was massacred, the soldiers were bayoneted and the nurses were ordered to march into the sea where they were shot. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel and a British soldier survived the massacre. Both were taken Prisoner of War (POW), but only Sister Bullwinkel survived the war. Sister Raymont was one of the remaining thirty two nurses who also survived the sinking and were captured as POWs, eight of which later died in captivity. Sister Raymont died of illness on 8 February 1945 in Sumatra.
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX3439 Sister Bessie Wilmott, 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian nurses and o
Informal portrait of VX38812 Matron Olive Dorothy Paschke and a number of nurses of the 2/10th Australian General Hospital (AGH), known as the 10th AGH at the time. Matron Paschke, five other nurses a
Informal group portrait of members of 2/10th Australian General Hospital at Malaya. Identified left, crouching inside window frame, is NFX70527 Sister Kathleen (Kath) Margaret Neuss. Sister Neuss was
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VFX61126 Sister Kathleen Kinsella, 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian nurses
Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TFX2183 Sister Dora Shirley (Shirley) Gardam, 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Austra
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NFX76275 Sister Mary Eleanor McGlade, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian
