Matron Irene Melville Drummond (26 July 1905 – 16 February 1942) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War. She was the most senior-ranking among the 22 Australian nurses killed in the Bangka Island massacre on 16 February 1942.
Drummond was posthumously mentioned in despatches in 1946 "for gallant and distinguished service in Malaya in 1942".
See also Clarice Halligan, also killed in the Bangka Island Massacre Vivian Bullwinkel, sole survivor of the Bangka Island Massacre
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