Vivian Bullwinkel
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Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War. She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow n
Studio portrait of Vivian Bullwinkel, taken in May 1941
Bullwinkel at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in 1946
Bangka Island
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Bangka is an island lying east of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is administered under the province of the Bangka Belitung Islands, being one of its namesakes alongside the smaller island of Belitung across t
Vivian Bullwinkel
…the Second World War. She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942. Vivian Bullwinkel was born on 18 December 1915 in Kapunda, South Australia, to George…
Coolie rebellion on Bangka; Chinese leaders captured by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, 1899
Tin workers on Bangka, 1914