- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: PR00388
Muir, Sylvia Jessie Mimmi
- Married name McGregor, Sylvia
- Born 24 August 1915, Longreach, Queensland, Australia
- Died 18 February 1996
- Occupation Army Nurse, Nurse
Summary
During World War II, Sylvia Muir, along with fellow Queensland Joyce Tweddell, became a prisoner of war (POW) when she was captured, together with many other nurses, by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. She was interned in Sumatra for three and a half years before her recovery from the camp at the cessation of the war.
Archival resources
- National Library of Australia
- National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra
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Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
- Lieutenant Sylvia Muir, Australian Army Nursing Service
- Group portrait in the hospital grounds of original Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Staff and three physiotherapists who sailed from Sydney in January 1941 to staff the 2/10th Australian General Hospital (AGH)
- Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia
Published resources
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Resource Section
- Sister Sylvia Muir and Joyce Tweddell (1941), De Vries, Susanna, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1940/index.html#item-sylvia-muir-joyce-tweddell
- Muir, Sylvia: Service Record, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australian Government, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=21958
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Resource
- found, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australian government, http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/behindwire/found.html
- The Australian Ex-prisoners of War Memorial, City of Ballarat, 2008, http://www.ballarat.com/memorial.htm
- Trove: Muir, Sylvia Jessie Mimmi (1915-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-775066
- Book