Auction No. 23 Sunday, 15 April 2018 / 3:00 pm start
1955 (4th May) 3½d USA Memorial on Royal FDC hand ...
Estimate $170
Realised: $160 plus premium
Category: Australia > First Day Cover
Lot Details
1955 (4th May) 3½d USA Memorial on Royal FDC hand addressed to "Miss V Bullwinkle, Ward 2, R.G. Hospital, Heidelberg West N22". Neat "REPAT G.H. HEIDELBERG VIC" cds. Vivian Bullwinkle was a WWII Australian nurse & the only survivor from the Japanese massacre when 22 other nurses were bayonetted & machine gunned on Radji Beach on Banka Island in Sumatra in 1942.
