Sister
Alma
May
Beard
Born in Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Edward William Beard
and Katherine Mary (Brennan) Beard
Died
at age 29
in Bangka Island, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia)
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Australian Nurses of the Vyner Brooke
Biography
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Alma May Beard was born on 14th January 1913 in Toodyay, on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, Australia. She was the second daughter of Edward Beard and Katie Brennan. [1]
Alma was a nurse
Alma completed her training and was registered as a nurse.
On 19th June 1941, Alma was commissioned into the Australian Army Nursing Service and attached to the 2/13th Australian General Hospital, then based in Malaya. [2] Along with 64 other Australian nurses and many civilians, including women and children, Alma 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. [3]
Sister Alma Beard was killed in action at Bangka Island during the Second World War.
Alma was murdered by the Japanese on 16th February 1942 at Bangka Island, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia). Alma May Beard's name is located at panel 96 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra and at Kranji War Memorial, Singapore. [4][5]
Alma is commemorated through the Alma Beard Community Health Centre at Toodyay.
Sources
- ↑ Western Australia Birth Index #38/1913; registered at Northam
- ↑ Department of Veterans' Affiars nominal roll: WFX11175 (W16368) Sister Alma May Beard; accessed 29 Feb 2020
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Sister BEARD, ALMA MAY
- ↑ Virtual War Memorial Australia
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