Accession Number | P02783.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white, Portrait |
Physical description | Black & white, Portrait |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SFX10594 Major Irene Melville Drummond, 2/13th ...
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SFX10594 Major Irene Melville Drummond, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brooke from Singapore, three days before the fall of Malaya. The Vyner Brooke was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in Banka Strait on 14 February 1942. Of the sixty five nurses on board, twelve were lost as sea and thirty two survived the sinking and were captured as Prisoners of War (POWs) of which eight later died during captivity. Matron Drummond, aged 37, was one of the remaining twenty two nurses who also survived the sinking and were washed ashore on Radji Beach, Banka Island, where they surrendered to the Japanese, along with twenty five British soldiers. On 16 February 1942 the group was massacred, the soldiers were bayoneted and the nurses were ordered to march into the sea where they were shot. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel and a British soldier survived the massacre. Both were taken POW, but only Sister Bullwinkel survived the war. Matron Drummond was the daughter of Cedric Drummond of Cheshunt, SA. (Photograph copied from original photograph attached to attestation form, lent by Central Army Records Office.)
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