Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch
Newspaper - Newspaper clipping (inlc duplicate), Annie Gillison, A gentle champion fights on, 24 April [1988]
... ...Michael Willessee...World War 2 WWII WW2 World War II Vivian Bullwinkel Red Cross Mercy Hospital Michael Willessee St Kilda Road Edith Cavell Britich Belgium German Nurses' Memorial Centre Lucas Sampson Kerrie Sampson Yarraville West 'WWII ' '[blue ink, top right, both copies]
'Progress Press. ...
Vivian Statham (nee Bullwinkel) visits Melbourne from her home in Perth to launch the National Mutual Nurses' Month, taking place throughout May. The biggest woman's project of the bicentennial, Nurses' Month will involve nurses throughout Australia.
Though Vivian is now retired she is still very involved and concerned about the nursing world. Possibly best known as the courageous lone survivour of the massacre of Australian Army nurses by the Japanese in World War Two, Vivian went on to be matron of the Repatriation Hospital and then Fairfield Hospital. A newspaper clipping of a story consisting of three large columns of text and a large black and white photo of an older woman (head and sholders) holding a baby'WWII ' '[blue ink, top right, both copies]
'Progress Press. APRIL 1988'[black ink bottom left, one copy]world war 2, wwii, ww2, world war ii, vivian bullwinkel, red cross, mercy hospital, michael willessee, st kilda road, edith cavell, britich, belgium, german, nurses' memorial centre, lucas sampson, kerrie sampson, yarraville west