Qualla: Bangka Island Massacre https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/r/e/7/bangka-island-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bangka Island Massacre https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre Bangka Island Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre/ Photo credit Cun Cun, CC BY-SA 4.0. Vivian Bullwinkel kept the secret for the rest of her life. The Australian Army nurse survived a massacre on Bangka Island on February 16, 1942, shot and left for dead in the surf alongside 21 of her colleagues. She lived to testify at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in 1947 -- but not about everything. The Australian government told her never to speak about what the Japanese soldiers had done to the nurses before the shooting began. For nearly 80 years, the full truth of what happened on that beach remained hidden, not by the perpetrators but by the survivors' own country.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/r/e/7/bangka-island-massacre-wp/qre7-bangka-island-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bangka Island Massacre: The Fall of Singapore https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre/ Photo credit Cun Cun, CC BY-SA 4.0. On February 12, 1942, with Singapore on the verge of surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army, the royal yacht of Sarawak slipped out of the harbor carrying a desperate cargo: wounded soldiers, 65 nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service from the 2/13th Australian General Hos...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/r/e/7/bangka-island-massacre-wp/qre7-bangka-island-massacre-the-fall-of-singapore.mp3 0:06 2 full Bangka Island Massacre: The Beach at Radji https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre/ Photo credit Cun Cun, CC BY-SA 4.0. The soldiers separated the group. Wounded men who could walk were ordered around a headland, out of sight. Royal Navy Stoker Ernest Lloyd saw the machine guns being set up and understood what was about to happen. He ran into the sea. The Japanese opened fire. Lloyd was hit but lo...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/r/e/7/bangka-island-massacre-wp/qre7-bangka-island-massacre-the-beach-at-radji.mp3 0:06 3 full Bangka Island Massacre: Eighty Years of Silence https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre/ Photo credit Cun Cun, CC BY-SA 4.0. Bullwinkel testified about the shootings at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, but the sexual assaults were never mentioned. She later said the Australian government had instructed her to remain silent on that subject. The perpetrators -- soldiers of the 229th Infantry Regiment under...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/r/e/7/bangka-island-massacre-wp/qre7-bangka-island-massacre-eighty-years-of-silence.mp3 0:06 4 full Bangka Island Massacre: Remembered at Last https://qualla.com/bangka-island-massacre/ Photo credit Cun Cun, CC BY-SA 4.0. A plaque commemorating the South Australian Army Nursing Sisters who died at Bangka Island, including Irene Drummond and six others, was erected at the massacre site. In 2022, on the 80th anniversary, the Australian College of Nursing Foundation announced it would establish a sch...

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