What is Vivian Bullwinkel?
{{Infobox military person |name=Vivian Bullwinkel |image=Vivian Bullwinkel.jpg |caption= Studio portrait of Vivian Bullwinkel, taken in May 1941 |birth_date= 18 December 1915 |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2000|7|3|1915|12|18}} |birth_place= [[Kapunda, South Australia|Kapunda]], [[South Australia]] |death_place= Perth, Western Australia |allegiance= {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Commonwealth of Australia]] |branch= [[Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps]] |serviceyears= 1941&ndash;47 |rank= [[Lieutenant Colonel]] |unit= |commands= |battles= [[Second World War]] |awards= [[Order of Australia]]<br/>[[Member of the Order of the British Empire]]<br/>[[Red Cross|Associate of the Royal Red Cross]]<br/>[[Florence Nightingale Medal]]}} Lieutenant-Colonel '''Vivian Bullwinkel, Mrs. Statham''', [[Order of Australia|AO]], [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]], [[Red Cross|ARRC]], [[Florence Nightingale Medal|FNM]] (18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an [[Australian Army]] [[nurse]] during the [[Second World War]]. She was the only one alive from the [[Bangka Island Massacre]]. In that massacre, [[Japan]]ese [[troops]] killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, [[Bangka Island]] ([[Indonesia]]) on 16 February 1942. == Events == Japanese troops invaded [[British Malaya]] in December 1941. They went southward. They won several victories. By late January 1942, Japanese forces went through [[Johore]]. Australian hospital staff were told to get to [[Singapore]]. On 12 February, Bullwinkel and 65 other nurses boarded a steamship to escape.<ref name=Klemen>{{cite web|first=L|last=Klemen|url=http://www.dutcheastindies.webs.com/bangka_massacre.html|title=The Bangka Island Massacre, February 1942|date=1999–2000|work=Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942|access-date=2015-03-15|archive-date=2015-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722000126/http://www.dutcheastindies.webs.com/bangka_massacre.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two days later, the ship was sunk by Japanese airc