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Vivian Bullwinkel's Dress: Women, War Stories and the Battle for Truth

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In the Australian War Memorial, an innocuous grey dress hangs in one of the display cabinets. It belonged to Vivian Bullwinkel, who was known as the sole survivor of the Bangka Island massacre on 16 February 1942. On that day, on an island off the coast of Sumatra, Bullwinkel was one of a group of nurses ordered by a Japanese battalion to form a line along the beach and walk towards the sea.

The dress is suspended in space and time. Its emptiness allows us to imagine the uniform filled out b...