Violet Jones was born 1911 at Chiltern in Victoria. Daughter of
George Albert Jones and Christina Marion Buchan.
Ella Jones taken about 1941
Ella Jones taken 1981
Hazel Jones (My auntie) was born 1924 at Culcairn. Daughter of George Albert Jones and Christina Marion Buchan.
Service Number - VF515635 3 AUST AWS REC DEP VIC
(I am waiting on her service records so details added soon)
Hazel Jones taken 1981
I have included some photos here of other nurses who were in AANS
Tank, India. c. 1918. Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Sisters Browne, Steel, McAllister, Furness and Jack who were members of the hospital on the North West Frontier. (AWM Photo)
Studio portrait of Staff Nurse Vivian Bullwinkel, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), in service dress uniform. Bullwinkel is well known as the sole survivor of the infamous Banka Island massacre in which 21 of her AANS colleagues were killed by Japanese troops. Bullwinkel was born on 18 December 1915 at Kapunda, SA, and enlisted in the AANS in 1941. In September 1941 she embarked for Singapore as a staff nurse with the 2/13th Australian General Hospital (2/13th AGH). On 12 February 1942, three days before the fall of Singapore, Bullwinkel, along with 65 other Australian Army nursing sisters, was evacuated from Singapore on board the SS Vyner Brooke. On the 14 February, while on route to Sumatra via Banka Strait, the ship was sunk by Japanese aircraft. Twenty-two nurses, including Bullwinkel, and a large group of British soldiers, men, women, and children made it ashore at Radji Beach on Banka Island. The group decided to surrender and a group comprising of the civilian women and children, accompanied by some of the men, went to find Japanese troops while the rest of the group waited. When Japanese soldiers arrived, the men were executed and the 22 sisters were ordered to walk into the sea and were machine gunned from behind. Bullwinkel, struck by a bullet, pretended to be dead. She and the only other survivor of the massacre, a wounded British soldier, Private (Pte) Kinsley, hid for 12 days before surrendering. Both were taken into captivity, but Pte Kinsley died soon after. Bullwinkel spent three and half years in captivity and was one of just 24 of the 65 nurses who had been on the SS Vyner Brooke to survive the war. Her courage while a prisoner of the Japanese exemplified the bravery of Australian women in war, and her distinguished post-war career was marked by many humanitarian and career achievements. Vivian Statham (nee Bullwinkel) died on 3 July 2000.
Heidelberg, Vic, 1944. Group portrait of nursing trainees for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) with their teachers at the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Left to right: back row: Dot Chaffey; Jean Mallows; Vera Boocock; Ivy Turner; Iris Grant; Hope Talbot; Molly Gammon; Betty Cusack; Leila Bernoff; Maureen Phillips; Grace Goodman. Front row: Hilda Williamson; Sister E. McWilliam, Tutor Sister; Colonel Thomas; Matron McAllister; Jean Diprose. The trainees were members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) who had been selected for training in general nursing. This was the first group of AAMWS trainees
TANGONG, SINGAPORE, 1942-01-20. SISTERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE (AANS), 2/4TH CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, 8TH DIVISION. LEFT TO RIGHT, BACK ROW: E. MILLIE DORSCH (VIC), DROWNED 1942-02-14; B. PEGGY WILMOTT (WA), SHOT BANKA ISLAND BEACH 1942-02-15; WILHELMINA R. RAYMONT (SA), DIED BANKA ISLAND 1945-02; ELAINE BALFOUR-OGILVY, SHOT BANKA ISLAND BEACH 1942-02-15; PEGGY FARMANER, SHOT BANKA ISLAND BEACH 1942-02-15. FRONT ROW: DORA S. GARDAM (TAS), DIED BANKA ISLAND 1945-04; IRENE M. DRUMMOND, LATER MATRON OF 2/13TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, SHOT ON BANKA ISLAND BEACH 1942-02-15 AND ELAINE M. HANNAH WHO SURVIVED. FOUR OF THESE NURSES WERE AMONG THE TWENTY ONE ARMY NURSES MASSACRED BY THE JAPANESE ON BANKA ISLAND AFTER THE SS VYNER BROOKE SANK OFF SUMATRA. THE PHOTOGRAPHER VX38986 WARRANT OFFICER J. D. EMMETT BECAME A PRISONER OF WAR AFTER THE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE AND BURIED THE FILM FOR NINE MONTHS. IT WAS THEN HANDED TO A PRIVATE ABBOTT WHO DEVELOPED IT IN THE X-RAY ROOM AT THE CHANGI HOSPITAL. AFTER THE WAR WARRANT OFFICER EMMETT RECOVERED THE FILM AND HAD IT PRINTED.
Additional information Vietnam Nurses is the untold stories of six Australian Army nurses who served at the only Australian field hospital in the Vietnam War. Premieres on SBS Television Storyline Australia 8.30pm AEST 1st September
http://www20.sbs.com.au/vietnamnurses
http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm
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