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Eileen Mary Ita Short (1904 - 1975)

Eileen Mary Ita Short
Born in Maryborough, Queensland, Australiamap
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Died at age 71 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australiamap
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Biography

Eileen Mary Ita Short was born in 15th January 1904 at Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. She was the younger daughter of Henry Short and Bridget Smith.[1]

Eileen completed her nursing studies and was appointed matron of the tiny Isisford Hospital, Isisford, Queensland.

Eileen Short is a Military Veteran.
Served in the Second Australian Imperial Force 1941-1946
2/13th Australian General Hospital
On 21st August 1941, Eileen 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, Eileen 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
Eileen Short was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War.

She became a prisoner of war of the Japanese.[4] She was discharged on 4th April 1946.

She passed away, unmarried, aged 71 years, on 25th April 1975 at Toowoomba, Queensland.[5]

Sources

  1. ↑ Queensland Birth Index #C7916/1904
  2. ↑ Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: QFX22911 Lieutenant Eileen Mary Short; 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 record; accessed 2 Mar 2020
  5. ↑ Queensland Death Index #C2346/1975




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