Vivian Bullwinkel was an Australian army nurse who survived the sinking of the Vyner Brooke in 1942 only to become the sole survivor when the Japanese massacred 21 nurses and 1 elderly civilian woman on Bangka Island, now part of Indonesia ...

History Section - Please choose here ------------------------ History ------------------------ - 2/3rd Training Formation - Middle East - Java - POWS - POW School - Burma-Thai Railway - Weary Dunlop - New Guinea - War's End 'Weary' Dunlop ...a lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering... During the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway by the Japanese in 1942-43, 2710 ...

SIR EDWARD 'WEARY' DUNLOP Sir Edward Weary Dunlop was a surgeon in the Australian Army during World War Two. He is legendary for his care of soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese. His nickname might have been Weary but his nature certainly wasn't. Even in the most horrific conditions Weary found energy to fight for the wellbeing and often, the lives of these men. Weary grew up on farms in ...