• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000923

Darling, Janet Patterson ‘Pat’ (Sister)

  • Repository Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
  • Reference PR01989
  • Date Range 1998 - 2001
  • Description

    Typescript memoir (98 pp) titled “Eastern Interlude”, written in 1998 by Janet ‘Pat’ Darling (nee Gunther) covering her Second World War nursing service in Malaya and, following the sinking of the ‘Vyner Brooke’ off Banka Island, subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Sumatra (Palembang). Also included is an illustrated publication ‘Portrait of a Nurse: Prisoner of War of the Japanese 1942-1945, Sumatra’, by Pat Darling (nee Gunther), MID, signed by author (published by Don Wall, Moss Vale, ISBN No 0 9585418 1 7).

  • Formats Manuscript, book
  • Access Open

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  • Primary Subject
    • Darling, Janet Patteson (Pat) (1913 - 2007)