Historical information

This article is a biographical article about Nell (Ellen) Allgrove (nee Hannah) published after her death. The article details significant events in her life including: joining the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brooke and becoming a Japanese POW; marrying and moving to Essex, England; her campaigning for adequate Australian pensions for nurses who had been interred; before returning to Banka Island for the unveiling of a memorial to the nurses who perished as a result of the Vyner Brooke sinking.

Physical description

A newspaper article clipped from a larger page with three columns of text and a centered black and white photo of a young woman in uniform.

Inscriptions & markings

'Daily Telegraph / 10/11/93 / England' [blue ink top right of page]