Person
Bullwinkel, Vivian (1915 - 2000)
AO MBE ARRC ED FNM FRCNA
- Born
- 18 December 1915
Kapunda, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 3 July 2000
- Occupation
- Nurse and Health administrator
Summary
Vivian Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service in May 1941 and sailed to Singapore. She survived 'The Bangka Island Massacre,' where she was shot in the back and pretended to be dead until the Japanese soldiers left. She spent more than three years a prison camp. After the War, Bullwinkel was Matron of Melbourne's Fairfield Hospital for sixteen years, retiring to Perth in 1977.
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Manners, Norman G., Bullwinkel: the true story of Vivian Bullwinkel, a young Army nursing sister, who was the sole survivor of a World War Two massacre by the Japanese (Carlisle, WA: Hesperian Press, 1999), 239 pp. Details
- Murray, James, Lifework: Heroes of Australian Health (Edgecliff, NSW: Focus Publishing for [Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd], 1997), 160 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3425278. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/88425129. Details
- 'Bullwinkel, Vivian (1915-2000)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-783063. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Bullwinkel, Vivian (1915-2000), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0362b.htm. Details
Helen Morgan
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 15 June 2022