in January 1942. Cast Claire van der Boom as Sister Berenice Twohill. Born in Murwillumbah, most of her early life was spent at Tumbulgum on the Tweed River. She was the eighth of 11 children with eight brothers and two sisters. Sister Berenice joined the missionary order of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in 1934. Sarah Snook as Lorna Whyte. Born in Hay, New South Wales, Whyte was the youngest of eight children. She attended the Hay War Memorial School before training as a nurse at the Corowa Hospital. Joining the army in 1941, she was selected as one of the Australian Army Nursing Service nurses to be part of Lark Force, arriving in Rabaul on 25 April 1941. Susie Porter as Kay Parker. Parker was the much-admired matron of the military nurses who were evacuated to the mission at Vunapope when the Japanese invaded Rabaul on 23 January 1942. She showed extraordinary leadership, often standing up to the Japanese to protect the Rabaul women under her care. Gerald Lepkowski as Bishop Leo Scharmach. Polish-born, Bishop Leo Scharmach was the charismatic leader of the Catholic Mission at Vunapope, the headquarters of the Sacred Heart Mission which covered New Britain, New Ireland and Manus. In 57 main stations, 60 priests looked after the needs of 60,000 Catholics. Vunapope was the centre of this extensive mission and the Bishop took up residence there in 1939. Paulini Curuenavuli as Sister Marie. Khan Chittenden as Len. Anna Volska as Sister Cordula. Source Australian Broadcasting Corporation DVD release Sisters of War is available on DVD in Australia. References External links Sisters of War at IMDb Sr. M. Berenice Twohill The Forgotten Prisoners of Rabaul Australian television films 2010 television films 2010 films Australian World War II films Films shot in Australia Films set in Australia Films set in Papua New Guinea 2010s English-language films