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Veronica Ann (Clancy) Turner (1910 - 1997)

Veronica Ann Turner formerly Clancy
Born in Urelea, South Australia, Australiamap
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Mother of [private son (unknown - unknown)], [private daughter (1950s - unknown)] and
Died at age 87 [location unknown]
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Australian Nurses of the Vyner Brooke

Biography

Veronica Ann Clancy was born in 29th June 1910 at Urelea, South Australia, Australia. She was a daughter of Daniel Clancy and Elizabeth Jane unknown.[1]

She became a nurse.

Veronica (Clancy) Turner is a Military Veteran.
Served in the Second Australian Imperial Force 1941-1946
2/13th Australian General Hospital
On 19th August 1941 she was commissioned as a nurse 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, 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.[3]
Roll of Honor
Veronica (Clancy) Turner was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War.

She became a prisoner of war of the Japanese; held at Sumatra.[4] She was discharged in December 1946.

Veronica passed away in October 1997.[5]

Sources

  1. ↑ [https://www.genealogysa.org.au/index.php?option=com_gsa&view=gsa&layout=essearch&collection_id=birth&page_no=1&Surname=clancy&GivenName=veronica&year_from=1912&accuracy=3 South Australia Birth Index #850/216 1910; registered at Frome
  2. ↑ Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: NFX76282 (N101861) Nurse Veronica Ann Clancy; accessed 29 Feb 2020
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Australian War Memorial POW records: Veronica Ann Clancy; accessed 1 Mar 2020
  5. ↑ Australian War Memorial documents; accessed 1 Mar 2020




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