Vivian Bullwinkel

Vivian Bullwinkel (born 18 December 1915, died 3 July 2000), later Vivian Statham, was an Australian Army nurse in the Second World War who reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She is best known as the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, in which Japanese forces killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, on 16 February 1942. The source summary used for this entry records her wartime nursing service and that single event, so her later career is not described here and is left for a later pass.