Pauline
Blanche
Hempsted
Born in Graceville, Queensland, Australia
Daughter of Percy Hempsted
and Bertha Louisa (Howard) Hempsted
Died
at age 36
in Bangka Island, Nederlandsch-Indië
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Feb 2020
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Biography
Pauline Blanche Hempsted was born in 9th September 1908 at Graceville, Queensland, Australia. Blanche was a daughter of Percy Hempsted and Bertha Howard.[1]
Pauline was a nurse
Blanche completed her training and was registered as a nurse.
On 27th April 1941, Blanche enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service and was posted to the 2/13th Australian General Hospital in Malaya.[2] Along with 64 other Australian nurses and many civilians, including women and children, Blanche 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]
Pauline Hempsted was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War.
Pauline Hempsted died whilst a prisoner of war during the Second World War.
She passed away on 19th March 1945 at Bangka Island, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia). Pauline Blanche Hempsted's name is located at panel 96 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra and at the Jakarta War Cemetery, Jakarta, Indonesia.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Queensland Birth Index #B18082/1908
- ↑ Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: QFX22714 (QF70246) Sister Pauline Blanche Hempsted; accessed 28 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
- ↑ Australian War Memorial roll of honour: QFX22714 Sister Pauline Blanche Hempsted; accessed 28 Feb 2020
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