Jean Stewart
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Esther Sarah Jean Stewart (1904 - 1942)

Sister Esther Sarah Jean (Jean) Stewart
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australiamap
[sibling(s) unknown]
Died at age 37 in Bangka Island, Nederlandsch-Indiëmap
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Australian Nurses of the Vyner Brooke

Biography

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Esther Sarah Jean Stewart

Sister Esther Sarah Jean Stewart was born on 15th October 1904 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was a daughter of Charles Stewart and Sarah Mann.[1]

Jean was a nurse

Jean completed her training and was registered as a nurse.[2]

Jean enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service and was posted to the 2/10th Australian General Hospital in Malaya. Her next-of-kin was listed as Andrew Muir.[3] Along with 64 other Australian nurses and many civilians, including women and children, Florence 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.[2]
Roll of Honor
Sister Jean Stewart was killed in action at Bangka Island during the Second World War.

Along with twenty of her nursing friends who also washed up on the beach, Jean was murdered – machine gunned in the back – by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army on 16th February 1942 right there on Radji Beach in what has become known as the Bangka Island Massacre.

Sources

  1. Queensland Birth Index #B9281/1904
  2. 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
  3. Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: NFX70936 Sister Esther Sarah Jean Stewart; accessed 1 Mar 2020




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