| Rank | Sister Nursing Corps |
| Service Number | WFX11174 |
| Unit | 2/13 Australian General Hospital Australian Army Medical Services |
| Cause of Death | Executed by Japanese in the Bangka Island massacre |
| Place of Death | Bangka Island, Indonesia |
| Date of Death | 16 February 1942 |
| Age | 33 |
History
Sister Minnie Ivy Hodgson of 2/13th Australian General Hospital is the daughter of John and Contrary Hodgson.
She was born in Perth on 16 August 1908 and later moved with her family to ‘Windstorm’, the family farm, near Yealering.
Minnie attended Yealering and West Perth schools and completed her secondary education as a boarder at Methodist Ladies College.
Minnie trained at the Children’s Hospital, which became Princess Margaret Hospital, and later nursed at King Edward Memorial Hospital.
Prior to her enlistment at Swan Barracks on 14 July 1941 she was matron at Kondinin hospital.
Minnie wrote home to her aunty saying: “I don’t think our soldiers have changed since the last war. They’re just as cheerful and witty as, from uncle’s accounts, they were in the last war.”
Sister Minnie Ivy Hodgson, service number WFX11174 of 2/13 Australian General Hospital, was shot as a prisoner of war at Bangka Island on 16 February 1942. She was 33.
