Tuesday, August 9, 2011

BANGKA ISLAND MASSACRE

Tuesday, August 9, 2011
BANGKA ISLAND MASSACRE
(St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1942)
On board the liner SS Vyner Brooke (Captain R. E. Borton, OBE) named after its onetime owner Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and in peacetime had sailed between Singapore and Kuching, were 65 Australian Army nurses of the 2/10 and the 2/13th

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