'What Vivian Bullwinkel wanted': Calls to change official WWII Bangka massacre account

Sarah Basford Canales
Updated April 26 2021 - 6:28pm, first published 12:00pm
Mary Napier, niece of murdered Australian nurse, Sister Elaine Balfour Ogilvy, during WWII's Bangka Massacre. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Mary Napier, niece of murdered Australian nurse, Sister Elaine Balfour Ogilvy, during WWII's Bangka Massacre. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

For nearly 80 years, Canberra resident Mary Napier was told her aunt had been tragically shot by Japanese soldiers in a massacre on an Indonesian island during World War Two.

Sarah Basford Canales

Sarah Basford Canales

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