On Radji Beach: The Story of the Australian Nurses After the Fall of Singapore by Ian W Shaw

The Japanese soldiers who subsequently found the survivors would not accept their surrender. The Australian nurses were ordered into the water and died in a hail of bullets.

Only Vivian Bullwinkel survived, pretending to be dead. Wounded, Bullwinkel endured 13 days in the jungle before another Japanese patrol picked her up. Bullwinkel waited with the other surviving nurses from the Vyner Brooker.

They went on to endure three and a half years in internment camps. Only 24 of the original 65 returned to Australia.