Sister
Gladys
Laura
Hughes
Born in Waikino, Auckland, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Hughes
and Elizabeth Shore (Montgomery) Hughes
Died
at age 37
in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
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| Sister Gladys Hughes |
Gladys Laura Hughes was born on 19th September 1907 at Waikino, Auckland, New Zealand. She was the older daughter of James Hughes and Elizabeth Montgomery.[1]
Gladys was a nurse
Gladys completed her training and was registered as a nurse, working at a Melbourne hospital.
On 8th August 1941, Gladys 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, 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]
Sister Gladys Hughes was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II.
Sister Gladys Hughes died whilst a prisoner of war during the Second World War.
She passed away as a prisoner of war on 31st May 1945 at Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia). Gladys Laura Hughes's name is located at panel 96 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the Jakarta War Cemetery, Jakarta, Indonesia and on the war memorial at Auckland, New Zealand.[4]
Sources
- ↑ New Zealand Birth Index #1907/20362
- ↑ Department of Veterans' Affiars nominal roll: https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=676794&c=WW2#R VX61331 Sister Gladys Laura Hughes; 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
- ↑ Australian War Memorial roll of honour: VX61331 Sister Gladys Laura Hughes; accessed 29 Feb 2020
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Gladys:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Gladys:
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~12.50%
~12.50%
Nikki Moore 
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~6.25%
Terry Montgomery :
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~1.56%
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