QFX22911 Sister Eileen Short, of 2/10 Australian General Hospital recuperating after her release ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Sumatra
Accession Number P01015.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Sumatra
Date made September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

QFX22911 Sister Eileen Short, of 2/10 Australian General Hospital recuperating after her release in a hospital bed after her release from Belalau, a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camp outside Loebok Linggau, Sumatra. She had been aboard the Vyner Brooke when it was sunk by the Japanese on 14 February 1942 two days out of Singapore.