- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0463
Pemberton, Jean Keers
- Maiden name Greer, Jean
- Born 21 October 1913, Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
- Died 7 December 2001, Chichester, , England
- Occupation Servicewoman
Summary
Jean Greer (later Pemberton) enlisted in the Australian Army on 16 December 1940. Attached to the 2/10 Australian General Hospital she was posted to Malaya in 1941.
On 14 February 1942, Jean was one of the 65 nurses aboard the ship Vyner Brooke when it was sunk by Japanese bombing. After reaching the shore she was captured by the Japanese and was a Prisoner of War for the next three and a half years before being liberated.
Jean Greer was discharged on 23 September 1946 and married Scotsman Duncan Pemberton in Singapore in 1947.
The couple moved to England where Jean died on 7 December 2001.
Archival resources
- National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra
- Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
Digital resources
- Title: Identity card : Sister J K Greer, 2/10 Australian General Hospital
- Type: Image
- Description: Part of the contents of a tropical uniform dress worn by NX70937 Sister Jean (Jenny) Keers Greer, of 2/10 Australian General Hospital, when the SS Vyner Brooke was sunk by the Japanese in February 1942. Sister Greer was subsequently taken prisoner of war. She used the dress and contents of her pocket throughout her captivity in Sumatra. The identity card was originally pinned inside her paybook. The paybook was of little use but her initial army training had stressed that the book was to be carried at all times, which accounts for its presence in her pocket at the time of the sinking of the ship. Identity card made by the British Red Cross Society, London.
- Date: 3 May, 2023
- Title: AWE0463gb.jpg
- Type: Image
- Date: 3 May, 2023
Published resources
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Resource Section
- GREER, JEAN KEERS, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=183031
- GREER, JEAN KEERS, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=318050
- GREER, JEAN KEERS, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=182712
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Resource
- Brave Women, Angell, Barb, http://www.angellpro.com.au/women.htm
- Trove: Pemberton, Jean Keers (1913-2001), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-743070