title: Return to Bangka Island.
abstract: This article is a return in a couple of ways to one of the most tragic events in the history of Australian military nursing. Firstly, it describes how the evacuation of nurses from Singapore in 1941 led to circumstances that resulted in the massacre or internment of many of those women. Then in 1993, a group of surviving World War II nurses and current serving Australian Army nurses returned to the site of their sorrow.
authors.affiliation: Defence Community Organisation, Ground Floor, 21 Napier Close, Deakin Act 2600, Australia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spence
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D008888:Military Nursing; D009740:Nursing Staff; D011329:Prisoners; D012767:Ships; D017741:Survivors; D014857:Warfare