Physical description

Green cloth bound book with a gold compass symbol on the front cover and gold printed heading and author on the spine.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'B36' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]
'RETURNED NURSES CLUB OF VICTORIA / SUB BRANCH R.S.L.' [stamped in purple ink on multiple pages]

Summary

In 1942, a group of Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were murdered and the remainder taken prisoner. this engrossing record was kept by one of the surviving sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the three-and-a-half gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. [From Trove]