P00431.002 Accession Number: P00431.002

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Informal group portrait of members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) at a homecoming celebration. Sister (Sr) Vivian Bullwinkel, 2/13th Australian General Hospital (2/13 AGH), second from left, and Sr Wilma Oram, 2/13 AGH, second from right, were both held as prisoners of war (POWs) for three and a half years in Sumatra. Sr Bullwinkel is well known as the sole survivor of the Banka Island massacre in which 21 Australian Army sisters were killed by Japanese troops on Banka Island, following the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke.

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Accession Number
P00431.002
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Date Made
September 1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor W Young
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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