Broken Hill nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the Banka Island massacre, in which 60 soldiers and 22 nurses were killed. It's hoped that one day, she'll also be a household name.
Some of the survivors swam to shore at Radji beach.
Sister Bullwinkel miraculously survived despite being shot in the hip, by feigning death to trick her would-be killers.Speaking to the Age newspaper in 1945, Sister Bullwinkel said the atrocity was like something out of a movie. She then spent the next 12 days hiding from the Japanese, before being captured and put into a prisoner of war camp.
"It's pretty elite company really, when you think we only have three other statues: one is for Simpson and his donkey, another is for Sir John Monash and the other is for Weary Dunlop," he said.Vivian Bullwinkel testifying before the War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo in 1947
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