Sister
Kathleen
Margaret
Neuss
Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Henry Neuss
and Mary Cath Robertson (Perry) Neuss
Sister of
Jessie Bennett Milne Neuss and Leslie John Neuss
Died
at age 30
in Bangka Island, Nederlandsch-Indië
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| Sister Kath Neuss |
Kathleen Neuss was born in Victoria, Australia
Kathleen 'Kath' Margaret Neuss was born on 16th October 1911 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. She was the younger daughter of John Neuss and Mary Perry. [1]
Kathleen was a nurse
Kath completed her nursing training and became a nurse at Royal Prince Albert Hospital and at Inverell, New South Wales. [2]
On 17th December 1940, Kath enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service and was posted to the 2/10th Australian General Hospital in Malaya. [3] Along with 64 other Australian nurses and many civilians, including women and children, Kath 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. Kath was struck with a nasty shrapnel wound in her left hip caused by one of the explosions. [2]
Sister Kathleen Neuss was killed in action at Bangka Island during the Second World War.
Along with twenty of her nursing friends, Kath was murdered – machine gunned in the back – by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army on 16th February 1942 at Radji Beach, Bangka Island, Nederlandsch-Indië / Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) in what has become known as the Bangka Island Massacre. Kathleen Margaret Neuss's name is located at panel 96 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra and at Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. [4]
Sources
- ↑ Victoria Birth Index #27672/1911; registered at Creswick
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- ↑ Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: NX70527 Sister Kathleen Margaret Neuss; accessed 28 Feb 2020
- ↑ Australian War Memorial roll of honour: NX70527 Sister Kathleen Margaret Neuss; accessed 28 Feb 2020
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