Informal group portrait of SFX13418 Sister (Sr) Rebecca Florence Casson, Sr Lois Seebohm, SX13431 ...

Accession Number P09909.022
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of SFX13418 Sister (Sr) Rebecca Florence Casson, Sr Lois Seebohm, SX13431 Sr Lorna Fairweather and SX13081 Sr Elvin Wirrwer aboard Hospital Ship Wanganella. Sr Casson and Sr Fairweather were both executed in the Banka Island massacre along with nineteen other nurses. The only survivor of the massacre was Captain Vivian Bullwinkel.