Historical information
List of all the nursing staff (8th Division) that were evacuated from Singapore on the 12th February 1942 aboard the ship 'Vyner Brooke'. The list includes their names, unit details, state of enlistment in Australia, and their fate.
List was compiled by Charles E Stuart, BEM, State Secretary of the Ex POW and relative association, King St Melbourne.
Physical description
Collection of landscape orientation typed lists on white A4 paper in black ink.
The lists are divided into five columns with a solid black line between each one. There is a typed heading in the top centre of the first page.
Inscriptions & markings
'H71' [Handwritten in blue ink in the top right corner of the front page]
'H52' [Handwritten in the top left corner of the front page]
[white out marks on the top right corner of the front page]
'(NOW MRS FRANK STATHAM' [handwritten in blue ink, fourth line up from the bottom of the front page]
[some underlying, question marks and initials handwritten in blue ink throughout document]
Subjects
References
- Virtual War Memorial Australia information regarding the sinking of the Vyner Brooke
