Darling, Janet Patteson (Pat) (1913 - )

A nursing sister serving with the 2/10th Australian General Hospital, Pat Gunther (later Darling) was one of the Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. She writes about her three and a half years incarceration and survival in Portrait of a Nurse published in 2001.

• Gunther, Janet Patteson (maiden name)

Membership

• Sydney & Metropolitan Ex-Prisoners of War Welfare Association (1999 - )

Related Corporate Bodies

• Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) (1903 - 1948)

  Service no: NFX70493

  [ - 1947]

Related Cultural Artefacts

• Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

  Service no: NFX70493

  [ - 1947]

Books

• Darling, Pat, Portrait of a nurse : prisoner of war of the Japanese 1942-1945 Sumatra, Don Wall, Mona Vale, NSW, 2001, 98 pp. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• 'A poppy for the one who died in her place (in World War II)', Sydney Morning Herald, 1995, p. 1. [ Details... ]
• Jardine, Cassandra, 'Horrors hidden for 53 years. After half a century of silence, Pat Darling, one of 13 nurses who survived internment in Sumatra, talked to Cassandra Jardine about life and death in a Japanese POW camp.', Sun-Herald, 14 December 1997, p. 49. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Department of Veterans' Affairs, 'GUNTHER, JANET PATTESON', in World War 2 Nominal Roll, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=182691. [ Details... ]

See also

• Angell, Barb, Brave Women, http://www.angellpro.com.au/women.htm. [ Details... ]
• Warnock, Steve and Chapman, Barry (Photographer), 'Nurses revisit war hell (Bangka Island, Singapore)', Sun-Herald, 31 January 1993, p. 5. [ Details... ]