NFX70449 Sister Jess Doyle, of 2/10 Australian General Hospital sitting up in a hospital bed ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Sumatra
Accession Number P01015.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Sumatra
Date made September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

NFX70449 Sister Jess Doyle, of 2/10 Australian General Hospital sitting up in a hospital bed after her release from Belalau, a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camp outside Loebok Linggau, Sumatra. She had been aboard the Vyner Brooke when it was sunk by the Japanese on 14 February 1942 two days out of Singapore.