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Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.
Only South Australian nurse Sister Lieutenant Vivian Bullwinkel, American Eric Germann and Royal Navy Stoker Ernest Lloyd survived. For almost 80 years, details that the Japanese troops raped the Australian nurses before they were murdered were suppressed.
English: VX61330 Captain (Capt) Vivian Bullwinkel (left) sitting in a witness stand, giving evidence before the War Crimes Tribunal. Capt Bullwinkel was a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), and was aboard the Vyner Brooke when it was attacked and sunk on 14 February 1942.
VX61330 Captain (Capt) Vivian Bullwinkel (left) sitting in a witness stand, giving evidence before the War Crimes Tribunal. Capt Bullwinkel was a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), and was aboard the Vyner Brooke when it was attacked and sunk on 14 February 1942.
Jeffrey and Vivian Bullwinkel visited every sizeable hospital in Victoria to raise the money that created the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre. She is noted as a founder together with Edith Hughes-Jones, Wilma Oram and Annie M. Sage. [2] The Melbourne Nurses Memorial Centre opened in 1949 to honour the heroism of nurses. [1]
Bullwinkle or Bullwinkel may refer to: Bullwinkle J. Moose, a character in the television shows Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show; Captain Horatio Bullwinkle, Tugboat Annie's antagonist in films and a TV series; Vivian Bullwinkel (1915–2000), Australian Army nurse and lieutenant colonel, survivor of a Japanese World War II massacre
When the Japanese discovered them, the men were rounded up, and twenty-two of the nurses were forced back into the water where they were shot by the soldiers. Only Vivian Bullwinkel survived after the soldiers opened fire. Bullwinkel later found the rest of the nurses that survived the sinking of the ship.
The ACN Foundation's Bullwinkel Project raised funds to commission the first sculpture of an individual woman and the first to commemorate a nurse - Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO, MBE, ARRC, ED, FNM, FRCNA - in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial.