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Angell
BRAVE
WOMEN
This page is dedicated to
the women's history of the South Pacific area
who have served history.
Women at war and serving peace in Oceania have remained largely
undocumented
in history and nursing history. This page sets out to redress the
balance
and links to women's history and their works.
 
Sketches drawn
by the late Betty Jeffrey
in 1997 illustrating
POW camp dress
This is the
Doorway to many Related Pages
and a wealth of
historical knowledge
(please
click below on your
choice)
Contributors
(Click
on Index Name)
ANGELL - Dot
BELL
- Thelma (McEachern)
BLANCH
- Jessie (Eaton-Lee)
BULLWINKEL
- Vivian (Statham)
CLINCH
- Von
CULLEN
- Mavis (Cation)
GIBSON - Mary
(Everard)
JEFFREY
- Betty
McLEOD
- Maureen (Spicer)
ORAM
- Wilma (Young)
RAYNER
- Jan (Mills)
SAVAGE
- Nell
SETCHELL
- Margaret (Hamilton)
SIMONS
- "Jessie" Elizabeth (Hookway)
TWOHILL
- Sr. M. Berenice
WHYTE
- Lorna (Johnston)
Incidents
(Click
on Index Name)
BANGKA ISLAND -
massacre
CN-ASTV
- civilian surgical
teams, Vietnam
EMPIRE
STAR - voyage from
Singapore
AHS
CENTAUR - sinking of;
LEST
WE FORGET - tributes
INDIGENOUS SISTERS
- torture of
LONG
XUYEN - before and
after the Tet Offensive
RABAUL
NURSES - transported
to Japan
TOL
PLANTATION - massacre
VIETNAM
- Australian Civilian
Nurses in
VYNER
BROOKE- the sinking
of
VUNAPOPE
MISSION - brutal internment
of
WAH
SUI Incident - nurses abandoned
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Our thanks to the Department of Veterans' Affairs
for its grant to enable the writing of
"A Woman's War" - biography of Wilma
Oram Young
under the project banner
"Their Service Our
Heritage"
A prisoner under
the Japanese
she lived to become
one of Australia's
great heroes!
NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHERS - 2003
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further details
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  The
Forgotten Prisoners of Rabaul:
Eleven civilian
and six army nurses who were
taken to Japan as Prisoners of War from Rabaul in 1942 and
who lived
through appalling conditions there 1942 to 1945. Click
here for the story.
Mavis
Cullen (L) and Kay Parker
Rabaul nurses, later POWs
in Japan
Photo from the personal collection
of Mavis (Cullen) Cation
Women Prisoners
of War from Rabaul:
Civilian nurses from Namanula
Hospital:
Alice
Bowman, Mary Goss, Grace
Kruger, Joyce McGahan, Jean McLellan, Dorothy Maye, Joyce Olroyd-Harris.
Civilian Methodist Mission
nurses:
Dorothy
Beale, Jean Christopher,
Mavis Green, Dora Wilson
Australian Army nurses:
Jean
Anderson, Eileen Callaghan,
Mavis Cullen, Daisy Keast, Kathleen (Kay) Parker, Lorna Whyte
Other civilians:
Mrs.
Kathleen Bignall (plantation
owner, New Britain)
Mrs.
Etta Jones (American
school teacher, Aleutian islands)
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The
Wah Sui
Incident-
named after the rust bucket of a Chinese ship that took six Australian
nurses and 450 severely wounded soldiers out of Singapore in the 1942
evacuation,
only to abandon the nurses in Batavia, leaving them in the path of the
advancing Japanese army. This is a vital part of women's history.Click
here for a full eye-witness account.
Pictured in
Adelaide after their return:
LtoR: Molly
Campbell, (host),Von Dwyer, Thelma
Bell
three nurses from the "Wah
Sui"
Photo from the personal collection
of Thelma (Bell) McEachern
The
Wah Sui Nurses were:
Aileen
Irving (Charge Sister),
Veronica Dwyer, Vi Haig, Iva Craig, Molly Campbell and Thelma
Bell
The sinking of the Vyner Brooke
in Bangka Strait 1942
A collection of
eye-witness accounts to add
to women's history, stories of bravery and tragedy. Click
here.
Victims
of the Vyner Brooke sinking, presumed lost at sea, were:
Matron
O.D. Paschke, RRC - and
Sisters L.M.J. Bates, E. Calnan, M.D. Clarke, M.H.M. Dorsch, C.M.
Ennis,
K. Kinsella, G.M. McDonald, L.J. Russell, M. Schuman, A.M. Trenerry,
M.M.
Wilton.
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Women's history in the perilous
journey of the Empire Star:
Meanwhile aboard
another evacuation ship the
"Empire Star" two of the nurses protected their patients with their own
bodies when the ship was attacked. A brave episode in women's history!
They were later decorated for their bravery. Click
here for Margaret Hamilton's eye witness account.
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The "White
Coolies" - 32 Australian army nurses taken Prisoner of War
after their
evacuation ship was wrecked. The women spent 1942 to 1945 in prison
camps
in Sumatra and on Bangka Island.  Eight
of them did not survive the conditions. Individual stories are told in
this inspiring episode in women's history. Click
here
to
read that of one of the survivors, Wilma Oram Young:
Wilma Oram (pictured).Photo
from the personal collection of Wilma (Oram) Young
A full biography of Wilma (Oram)
Young "A Woman's War" will be published in 2003 by New Holland
Publishers.
Meanwhile read the short word portrait and enjoy meeting a remarkable
and
very brave woman.
Don't miss
reading the remarkable
diaries of Betty Jeffrey:"White
Coolies"(Angus
& Robertson, 1954)
Watch out for "A Woman's
War" biography of Wilma Oram Young,
available soon
through this Web Site!
The
nurses who became prisoners of war (the "White Coolies") in Sumatra
were:
Those who died there:
W.M.
Davis, R.D. Freeman, D.S.
Gardam, P.B. Hempsted, G.L. Hughes, P.B. Mittelhauser, W.R. Raymont,
I.A.
Singleton.
Those who returned home
in 1945:
J.C.
Ashton, K.C. Blake, J.J.
Blanch, V. Bullwinkel, V.R. Clancy, C.E.M. Delforce, J.G. Doyle, J.
Greer,
J.P. Gunther, E.M. Hannah, I. Harper, N. James, A.B. Jeffrey, V.I.
McElnea,
S.J. Muir, W.E.F. Oram, C.S.M. Oxley, E.M. Short, J.E. Simons, V.E.
Smith,
A.C. Syer, F.E. Trotter, J. Tweddell, B. Woodbridge.
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The Bangka Island massacre.The
21 Australian army nurses who were massacred on the beach at Bangka
Island
on 16 February 1942. Sole survivor Vivian
Bullwinkel
also survived the prison camps and told the full story.
Click
here for her eye-witness account.
Victims
of the massacre were:
Matron
I.M. Drummond and Sisters
E.L. Balfour-Ogilvy, A.M. Beard, A.J. Bridge, F.R. Casson,
M.E. Cuthbertson,
D.G.H. Elmes, L.F. Fairweather, P.E. Farmaner, C.I. Halligan, N.
Harris,
M.I. Hodgson, E.L. Keats, J. Kerr, M.E. McGlade, K.M. Neuss, F.A.
Salmon,
E.S.J. Stewart, M.M.A. Tait, R.J. Wight, B. Wilmott
And
let us not forget the one
civilian woman (un-named) who chose to remain with her husband, was
present
when he was butchered nearby and who walked bravely into the water with
the nurses.
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Nurses - Australian Surgical Teams in Vietnam:
A
more recent event in women's
history: CN-ASTV is a
group of the civilian nurses
of the Vietnam War who volunteered to go and help the civilian
Vietnamese
victims but found themselves mixed up in that thoroughly messy war.
Click here
to read some eye-witness accounts.
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Books and Papers:
Where
we know of books and papers
that are available on any of the above subjects, lists of titles,
authors
and publishers can be found on the applicable linked pages.
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Links within
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The Bangka Island massacre
. The Tol
Plantation massacre
. Betty Jeffrey
. J.E.
Simons . Lest
We Forget
.
The
prisoners of Rabaul
. The
Vyner Brooke sinking
. Wilma Oram Young
. Vivian
Bullwinkel
. The
Wah Sui Incident
.
Civilian nursing teams in Vietnam
. The
voyage of the Empire Star
. Vunapope
Mission . Bravery of
the Indigenous Sisters .
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INDEX
This list will continue to
expand. Please keep referring to it.
Adams, Margaret
Lamont . Anderson,
Margaret
. Angell, Dot
. Ashton,
Jean . Bell,
Thelma . Blake,
Pat . Blanche,
Jessie .Bullwinkel,
Vivian . Callaghan, Eileen
.Campbell, Molly
. Clinch,
Yvonne . Cullen, Mavis
. Davis, Win
. Delforce,
C.E.M. .Deal,
Patricia .Dryburgh,
Margaret . Dwyer,
Molly
. Everard, Ruby Clarice
.Everard,
K. Mary . Floyd,
Jean .
Freeman,
Dot . Greer,
Jenny
. Gunther, Pat
. Hanna,
Margaret "Jean" . Hannah,
Mavis
. Harper, Iole
. James,
Nesta . Jeffrey,
Betty .McFarlane,
Mary Hamilton . Mittelhauser,
"Mitz" . Oram,
Wilma . Parker,
Kay .Rayner,
Jan .Savage,
Nell Simons,
Elizabeth . Setchell,
Margaret . Singleton,
Rene
. McLeod Spicer, Maureen
Syer,
Mickey . Torney,
Veronica .
Trotter,
Flo . Tweddell,
Joyce .Twohill,
Sr M. Berenice . Whyte,Lorna
. Wilton,
Mona
Other recommended sites
on Women's History:
Warlinks
. UN in
Vietnam . Australian
Service Nurses National Memorial . Australians
at War . Australian
Women's History .Australian
Nurses' Memorial . Australian
War Memorial. Women
in World
History . Distinguished
Women of the World
.
Women
in the Army . Captain
Barb . Burma
Star Association
. Korean War
Veterans support
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