Clarice Halligan

Clarice Halligan (17 September 1904 – 16 February 1942) was an Australian nurse and missionary. During the Second World War she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service, and while a prisoner of war was killed by the Japanese in the Bangka Island massacre.

Early life Clarice Isobel Halligan was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 17 September 1904, the daughter of Joseph Patrick Halligan and Emily Watson Chalmers. She had seven brothers and sisters.

Halligan trained in nursing at The Melbourne Hospital and Women's Hospital. She worked for three and a half years at the renamed Royal Melbourne Hospital. where they were shot. Halligan was 37 years old.

Awards and honours Halligan was commemorated in a Last Post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial on 9 February 2020. the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial in Ballarat, and the Australian Military Nurses Memorial.