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Script for sermon delivered by Reverend Peter Grundy on 1 September 2002 to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Sister May Hayman in Papua New Guinea during Second World War. The sermon was delivered at the church of St John the Baptist, Canberra, where May was a parishioner. May had been working at the All Soul's Mission Station since 1936. Grundy briefly describes May, her background and the nature of her work. He also relates the events surrounding the execution of May and another nurse by Japanese soldiers at Popondetta, in the Buna area in August 1942. In January 1943 the bodies of the two nurses were exhumed and reinterred at Sangara Mission station where a cross was erected. There is a concrete altar at the site of the execution.
The sermon was delivered at the church of St John the Baptist, Canberra, where May was a parishioner. May had been working at the All Soul's Mission Station since 1936. Grundy briefly describes May, her background and the nature of her work. He also relates the events surrounding the execution of May and another nurse by Japanese soldiers at Popondetta, in the Buna area in August 1942. In January 1943 the bodies of the two nurses were exhumed and reinterred at Sangara Mission station where a cross was erected. There is a concrete altar at the site of the execution.
Relating to Sister Frances May Hayman who was in charge of thge Mission Hospital at Gona. [item 1] Photocopied typescript of letter from May Hayman to her sister Vi Waterman, 4/8/1942. This was the la
Collection relating to Sister Frances May Hayman who ran the Missionary Hospital in Gona until her death at the hands of the Japanese in 1942. [item 1] Original handwritten letter by May Hayman to her
Papers of Sergeant Ida McCarthy Blyth who served with the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force during the Second World War. The collection comrprises four books of patient treatment records compile
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX137798 Private George Raymond Hill, 55/53 Battalion, Papua and New Guinea, 1942-1943. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of two telegrams and a typed tr
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NFX70526 Sister Dorothy Gwendoline Howard Elmes, Australian Army Nursing Service, Malaya, 1941-1942. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection contains 33 lett
Biographical notes (6 pages) relating to NX76275 Sister Mary E McGlade, a nurse who served with 13 Australian General Hospital (AGH) in Singapore during the Second World War and was killed in the Bank