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Books & Blogs by David Gormley-O'Brien

Australian Army Nurses

Australian army nurses prisoners of the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies

In An Attractive Naivety, Armistice Darcy is one of 65 Australian army nurses evacuated from Singapore on 12 February 1942, just before its fall, on the SS Vyner Brooke. The following day, Friday the 13th, the ship was attacked by six Japanese bombers and sunk. Of those who made it to shore, 21 were savagely raped and murdered by Japanese soldiers on Radji Beach, Bangka Island.