PORTRAIT OF ALMA BEARD
B & W Print A 'head' portrait of Nursing Sister Alma Beard wearing her uniform veil.
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Writing on reverse of photo states " Alma Beard daughter of Edward William and Katherine Mary nee Brennan. In 1942 killed by Japanese troops at Sumatra"
Alma Beard was one of sixty five Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brooke from Singapore, three days before the fall of Malaya. The Vyner Brooke was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in Banka Strait on 14 February 1942. Of the sixty five nurses on board, twelve were lost as sea and thirty two survived the sinking and were captured as Prisoners of War (POWs) of which eight later died during captivity. Sister Beard was one of the remaining twenty two nurses who also survived the sinking and were washed ashore on Radji Beach, Banka Island, where they surrendered to the Japanese, along with twenty five British soldiers. On 16 February 1942 the group was massacred, the soldiers were bayoneted and the nurses were ordered to march into the sea where they were shot. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel and a British soldier survived the massacre. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C371420
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