A City Of Refuge

The Horror Of The Bangka Massacre

It's a little known massacre of Australian nurses by Japanese executioners. 

VIVIAN BULLWINKLE, THE LONE SURVIVOR.

On February 16, 1942, Japanese soldiers took around 50 male prisoners and 22 female nurses, forcing them onto the beach. The men were taken away from the women to a nearby place where they were murdered. When the soldiers returned, they cleaned their rifles in front of the nurses, and demanded they walk into the ocean.

Then, the women were machine-gunned from behind.

THIS PHOTO, OF MY SISTERS AND ME, WAS TAKEN CIRCA 1947, OUTSIDE THE BROKEN HILL BASE HOSPITAL,

 

 ON MEMORIAL DAY OF THE BANGKA ISLAND MASSACRE, IN WHICH 
SISTER IRENE DRUMMOND, OF THIS HOSPITAL WAS MURDERED IN THIS 
HORRIFIC MASSACRE. READ THE ACCOUNT HERE:     AND HERE: