| Rank | Sister Nursing Corps |
| Service Number | NFX70526 |
| Unit | 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station Australian Army Medical Services |
| Cause of Death | Died as Prisoner of War |
| Place of Death | Bangka Island, Indonesia |
| Date of Death | 16 February 1942 |
| Age | 28 |
History
Dorothy Gwendoline Elmes was born at Armadale, Victoria to Robert and Dorothy Jean Elmes on 27 April 1914. She would grow up in Melbourne and Cheshunt in Victoria’s King Valley.
She would train at Corowa Community Hospital and would graduate in May 1939. By all accounts she was a very popular girl.
She enlisted in Paddington, NSW on 17 December 1940. Embarkation was on the Queen Mary in early February with other members of the 10th Australian General Hospital. She disembarked in Singapore on 18 February. On 10 January 1942 she was attached to the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station of the AANS. Eventually she was to travel to Singapore to await evacuation. She was evacuated on the SS Vyner Brooke. Eventually she would make land at Radji Beach on Bangka Island. On 16 February she would be killed with 20 other nurses by the Japanese on Radji Beach with only Vivian Bullwinkel surviving the massacre.
Her mother wrote, “My Darling little Bud, Oh dear I wish I knew where you are in the world…” on 2 March 1942, but Dorothy had already died on Radji Beach.