Two members of the Australian Army Nursing Service, Sister Jean Keer (Jenny) Greer of Petersham, ...

Place Asia: Malaya, Johore, Johore Bahru
Accession Number 305369
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Malaya: Johore
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Two members of the Australian Army Nursing Service, Sister Jean Keer (Jenny) Greer of Petersham, NSW (left), and Sister Betty Jeffrey of East Malvern, Vic, who were for three and a half years prisoners of war in Japanese hands in Sumatra, talking with an Australian soldier. The sisters were recovering from malnutrition in the Dutch hospital.