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Jeffrey was a nurse in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital during World War II; she was taken captive by the Japanese Imperial Army and interned in the Dutch East Indies. While in the Japanese internment camp on Sumatra, Jeffrey joined the female vocal orchestra. [1] Betty Jeffrey was freed and returned home on October 24, 1945. [1]
Frances Y. Slanger (born Friedel Yachet Schlanger, 1913 – October 21, 1944) was an American military nurse of Polish Jewish birth. The only American nurse to die due to enemy fire in the European theatre of World War II, she gained posthumous recognition for a letter she had written regarding the sacrifices of American soldiers which was published as an editorial in the military newspaper ...
The film follows a group of American Red Cross nurses sent to the Philippines during the early days of World War II. The movie was based on a book written by Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Hipps, [2] a World War II nurse – one of the "Angels of Bataan" – who served in Bataan and Corregidor during the time when MacArthur withdrew to Australia ...
Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Redmond Hipps (July 1, 1912 – February 25, 1979) was a US Army nurse during World War II. She was present in the Philippines during the early part of the war and was regarded as one of the Angels of Bataan. A bestselling book she wrote about her experiences formed the background for the 1943 war movie So Proudly We ...
Mary Borden (May 15, 1886 – December 2, 1968) (married names: Mary Turner; Mary Spears, Lady Spears; pseud. Bridget Maclagan) was an American-British novelist and poet whose work drew on her experiences as a war nurse. She was the second of the three children of William Borden (d. 1904), who had made a fortune in Colorado silver mining in the ...
This is a category for female nurses who were involved in caring for the sick and injured in war. See also: Category:American Civil War nurses This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:wartime nurses .
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Mary Ellen Morris (née Mulry; 15 February 1921 – 1997) [1] was an Irish nurse and writer, known for her war diaries during the Second World War.These are stored at the Imperial War Museum and in June 2014 were published under the title 'A Very Private Diary', [2] a reference to one diary entry: "15 June 1944, Bognor Regis: Should have headed this 'Somewhere in Southern England' but this is ...