Category: 2nd 4th Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army, World War II

Categories: Australian Army Nursing Service, World War II | Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Army, World War II

The 2/4th Australian Casualty Clearing Station was raised in Victoria and established in 1941 initially at Port Dickson, Malaya. Just weeks later, the 2/4th CCS was re-located to Kajang, outside Kuala Lumpur. As the Japanese advanced, the 2/4th CCS was re-located initially to Tampoi, beside the 2/13th AGH and then to Bukit Panjang English School, Singapore before finally setting-up at The Swiss Club, just north of Singapore City on 6th February 1942. The commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel Tom Hamilton and the initial matron was Irene Drummond. Irene was replaced by Kit Kinsella in August 1941. When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15th February 1942, those doctors, nurses and patients not killed in frenzied Japanese murders became prisoners-of-war for the next three and a half years. Four of the 2/4th CCS sisters were murdered by the Japanese in the 'Bangka Island Massacre'.

• 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.

Australian Nurses of the Vyner Brooke

Elaine Balfour-Ogilvy 11 Jan 1912 Renmark, South Australia, Australia - 16 Feb 1942

Millicent Dorsch 25 Feb 1912 Brighton, South Australia, Australia - 15 Feb 1942

Irene Drummond 26 Jul 1905 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia - 16 Feb 1942

Peggy Farmaner 08 Mar 1913 Koombana, Lapsley-road, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia - 16 Feb 1942

Dora Gardam 24 Aug 1910 Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia - 04 Apr 1945

Thomas Hamilton 15 Mar 1899 Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 05 Jul 1990

Ellen (Hannah) Allgrove 12 Oct 1910 Claremont, Western Australia, Australia - 1994

Kathleen Kinsella 18 Mar 1904 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - 14 Feb 1942

Wilhelmina Raymont 17 Dec 1911 Prospect, South Australia, Australia - 08 Feb 1945

Bessie Wilmott 24 May 1913 North Perth, Western Australia, Australia - 16 Feb 1942

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