Pat Darling

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Pat Darling (born 31 August 1913, Casino, New South Wales, Australia - died 2007) was an Australian servicewoman and nursing sister with the 2/10th Australian General Hospital.

Born as Janet Patteson Gunther, she was one of the Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. She wrote about her three and a half years incarceration and survival in Portrait of a Nurse (published in 2001).

She died in 2007.