June Rourke celebrates 100 years on June 1

Andrea Cantle
Updated May 31 2019 - 12:33pm, first published May 30 2019 - 3:30pm
CENTENNIAL: Named for her birth month, war nurse June Rourke turns 100 on Saturday, June 1.
CENTENNIAL: Named for her birth month, war nurse June Rourke turns 100 on Saturday, June 1.

When June Rourke was 22 years old, she was nursing wounded Australian soldiers during World War II in Bootless Bay, New Guinea.

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Andrea Cantle

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