Memorial service honours nurses massacred on Bangka Island

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Updated February 16 2018 - 8:57am, first published February 14 2018 - 1:17pm
Remembering: Port Macquarie RSL sub-branch president Greg Laird OAM, with members of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps Association Barbara O'Keefe, Marie Hatchwell and Sandra Hawkins. Photo: Peter Daniels
Remembering: Port Macquarie RSL sub-branch president Greg Laird OAM, with members of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps Association Barbara O'Keefe, Marie Hatchwell and Sandra Hawkins. Photo: Peter Daniels

Port Macquarie hosted the only memorial service on the eastern seaboard of Australia to remember the World War II Bangka Island massacre.

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Peter Daniels

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Peter Daniels is the senior journalist with the Port Macquarie News, Wauchope Gazette and Camden Haven Courier and is responsible for covering news, council, politics, court, civic news and feature writing.

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