Historical information

Sixty nurses talk to Matron Paschke about their timein and return from Malaya.
Sisters Margaret Anderson and Vera Tourney are now famous for their bravery in one of the bombing attacks on the ship they were on. They shielded a wounded gunner with their bodies. "We just had to do what we could the best way we could" said Vera.
In Malaya Matron Paschke had received a message that twenty nurses had to be ready to leave in an hour. After that they spent eighteen days in a converted boarding house, with wounded arriving within twenty-four hours of the nurses.
When trying to reach their ship to evacuate, they had to spend a couple of hours in the Adelphi Hotel during heavy bombing.
Making it onto the ship, the nurses' quarters was in the meant hold with a single light, where the nurses had to sleep om their luggage and belongings. The ship had accommodations for twenty passengers, but carried 2500 this time.
Sister Bennos Atwood wanted everyone to know "that the heroism of out men was beyond words, and those we left behind in the hospitals and elsewhere were so glad for our sakes that we were getting away."

Physical description

Newspaper clipping with four black and white photographs of young women in hats and five columns of text.

Inscriptions & markings

'WWII' [photocopied ink, top of page]