Dora Shirley GARDAM. Nursing Sister (Lieutenant) TFX2183 AANS. Attached to 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, Singapore.
Born at Ulverstone, Tasmania 24 August 1910 to Richard Alfred and Dora Ermengarde Gardam, of Port Sorell, Tasmania.
Died a prisoner of war of the Japanese at Sumatra 4 April 1945 aged 34. At rest in Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia
Notes from her service record-
Enlisted 20 June 1940 and called up (mobilised)29 July 1940 into 6th Military District, Hobart, later posted to 2/4th Causality Clearing Station, Brighton, Tasmania.
She was residing with her parents at School House, Young Town, Tasmania
She did her nurses training at Launceston Public Hospital and completed training 1 October 1937. She was a staff sister at St Margaret’s Hospital, Tasmania. Relieving sister at Launceston Public Hospital and staff nurse at Randwick Military Hospital, Sydney.
She and others of 2/4th C.C.S. left Singapore on evacuation ship bound for Australia when it sunk in the Banka Straits by the Japanese.
She was taken a prisoner of war by the Japanese and was executed later on Banka Island.
Interred in Menteng Pulo, Jakarta Cemetery.
Not recorded in her records is when 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station, embarked for Singapore.
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