Sister
Pearl
Beatrice
Mittelheuser
Born in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Johannes Heinrich Mittelheuser
and Margaret Eliza (Kelly) Mittelheuser
Died
at age 41
in Sumatra, Nederlandsch-Indië
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| Created 29 Feb 2020
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| Sister Pearl Mittelheuser |
Pearl Beatrice Mittelheuser was born on 28th April 1904 at Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. She was the eldest child of Johannes Mittelheuser and Margaret Kelly.[1]
Pearl was a nurse
Pearl completed her training and was registered as a nurse.[2]
On 16th October 1940 pearl was commissioned as a nurse into the Australian Army Nursing Service and attached to the 2/10th Australian General Hospital, shortly afterward deployed to Malacca, Malaya.[3] Along with 64 other Australian nurses and many civilians, including women and children, Lorna was evacuated from Singapore on 12th February aboard the ill-fated Vyner Brooke. The ship was discovered by the Japanese as it was entering the Bangka Strait two days later, bombed and strafed repeatedly, and sank in twenty minutes.[2]
Sister Pearl Mittelheuser was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War.
Sister Pearl Mittelheuser died whilst a prisoner of war during the Second World War.
Pearl passed away of illness, with contributory factors of malnutrition, whilst a prisoner of war but after the end of hostilities, on 18th August 1945. One of the senior nurses, she was 41 years of age. Pearl Beatrice Mittelheuser's name is located at panel 96 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra and at Jakarta War Cemetery, Jakarta, Indonesia.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Queensland Birth Index #C561/1904
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shaw, Ian W. 'On Radji Beach: The Story of the Australian Nurses after the Fall of Singapore'. MacMillan, Sydney, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4050-4024-2
- ↑ Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: QFX19068 (QF70210) Sister Pearl Beatrice Mittelheuser; accessed 29 Feb 2020
- ↑ Sister Pearl Beatrice Mittelheuser; accessed 29 Feb 2020
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