Bangka Island Nurse honoured in Last Post Ceremony

Bangka Island Nurse honoured in Last Post Ceremony

Image Source: Evgeny Freyer on Shutterstock On Wednesday, 15 March 2023 at 4:45pm, the Australian War Memorial will hold a Last Post Ceremony to commemorate the life of Australian Army Nursing Service nurse Sister Nancy Harris.   Sister Harris died on 16 February 1942 as part of the Bangka Island Massacre alongside 21 of her Australian…

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Meet the Bangka Island Nurses

Featured image source: Australian War Memorial  On 16 February 1942, twenty-two Australian nurses washed ashore on Bangka Island among a large group of survivors after the bombing of the SS Vyner Brooke – a civilian ship – after it left Singapore. Out of the sixty-five nurses that left Singapore, twelve nurses had already died in…