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Women and Children Evacuees &
Escapees from Singapore
up to 15th February 1942
Thanks to the generosity of Michael Pether, I have incorporated some of his work into this list. Michael's research is mainly concerned with escapees, ie. ships and people who left after the surrender of Singapore, that is about 1830 on Sunday February 15th 1942, in contrast to evacuees, those who got away before the surrender, which is my particular interest. Escapees would be predominently members of the armed services. Evacuees would be mostly women and children, of many nationalities though at least half were European [MS]. My [Mary Harris's] research is concerned with what happened to the women and children. If I have not listed men within the sparse but growing detail of passengers below, it does not mean that they were not there. It means only that I am looking for the women and children. And sometimes ships intended for military personnel alone, picked up women and children survivors from the sea.
If you would like to add names or make any corrections, please contact me, Mary Harris via the Cofepow website.Michael too can be contacted via the Cofepow website.
This list was last updated July 14th 2008
[MH] = Mary Harris, own research and personal communication
[KF] = Kent Fedorowich 'Evacuation of Civilians . . .' in 'Sixty Years
On'
[JK] = Joseph Kennedy 'British Civilians & the Japanese War . . .'
[[JM] = Jonathan Moffat's Malayan Volunteers' List - see MVG Newsletter
for contact
[MVG] = Malayan Volunteers' Group Newsletter.
[MS] = Margaret Shennan 'Out in the Midday Sun'
[CN] = Cofepow Newsletter
[CM] = Charles McCormack 'You'll Die in Singapore'
[NB] = Noel Barber, 'Sinister Twilight'
[MP] - Michael Pether's list
[IWM] = personal account in the Imperial War Museum, London
[PE] = Peter Elphick' 'Pregnable Fortress'
[W&S] = Warner & Sandilands 'Women Beyond the Wire'
[IM] = Ian MacCleod 'I Will Sing to the End'
[GB] = Geoffrey Brook 'Singapore's Dunkirk'
[JH] = John Hayter's 'Priest in Prison'
[RM] = Robert Mullock- Morgans
TP = Tanjong Priok, the port for Batavia (now Jakarta)
Tjilatjap is on the south coast of Java
NB 1 There is sometimes confusion over departure dates in different contemporary accounts. This can be because ships sometimes pulled away from the docks which were being bombed and shelled and stood off for a while to clear the bombing zone, return for more passengers, wait to form a convoy, locate minefields, await a tide etc etc.
NB 2 For ships that reached Australia, lists of arriving passengers exist within the National Archives of Australia. Cofepow is currently exploring with NAA how we can extract these lists and make them available, possibly on the Cofepow website.
NB 3 For ships that reached England eventually, lists of arriving passengers should be available, but these must not be taken to be complete lists of people who left, which, if they ever existed, have not survived. Some passengers disembarked en route for England or changed ships.
December 1941
Gorgon - left 22.12.41(Christmas spent on board) for Australia
Mrs Kathleen Pether (wife of HE Pether, CC Wakefield & Co) and Maureen
2 [MP]
NB Gorgon returned and took out more evacuees on 10.02.42 - see below
MV Ulysses - left 22.12.41 arrived Fremantle 31.12.41
Winifred Harriet Corrke nee Mitchell, LMO, with sons David and Brian
Doreen Grace Lucy Grose [JM]
Nancy Henly nee Johnston and daughter Janet Margaret [JM]
Mrs George Littledyke with daughter Morag now Atiken [MVG]
Orion - left 31.12.41 for Freemantle
Derek Allton schoolboy returning to Australia [MS]
Mrs Blakeley and daughter Rosemary [OC]
Mrs E J H Corner and John [MH]
Roma Nassim with sons K & J [JM]
W O'Grady, son J & daughter I [JM]
June Grindlay now Dunnett [MVG]
Katharine Del Tufo nee Holdsworth and children Peter and Cabry [JM]
Yvonne Heritage (OC) [see also CN28]
Florence Winifred Page with children, Sandy (now Lincoln) and Norman aged
18m
and mother Florence Louise Robson (known as Flo) [MVG & MH]
Barbara Saunders [CN28]
J Ward with daughter S [JM]
Kathleen Wilson nee Norwell [JM]
Nigel (Wooldridge) Killeen [CN23]
January 1942
Marnix van Sint Aldegonde - left as Ship 54 from Quay No 6 at 1100 on New Year's day, for Batavia [MH]
Lady Brooke-Popham with Sir Robert
Lady Layton
Many service wives
Aileen Grace Wallace nee Wise with Diana 6, Hugh 4
Charon - (Blue Funnel Line) - left Singapore 08.01.42 - Bob Webb says left on January 16th, reached Freemantle 18.01.42
Barnes family inc. children Geoffrey and Ken [MS]
Felicity Daly [MVG]
Harry Lampen-Smith aged 8/10 to NZ [MH]
Palliser family [MS]
Webb family [MS]
Molly Preston-Webb and Bob, wife of Charles Webb, Raffles College [MH]
Nellore - (Eastern and Australian Co) - to TP then passengers transhipped to Australia.
Batch of women and children refugees from fall of Penang including
Mabel Price and 2 sons [MS]
Aorangi - left 16.01.42 arrived Freemantle
24.01.42 NB this is not the Oranje.
The Aorangi and Narkunda left together under escort which left them after
2 days. Passengers on Narkunda who wanted to go on from Fremantle to Adelaide,
Melbourne or Sydney transferred to Aorangi at Fremantle. An outbreak of
dysentery on board made some passengers intending to go further, disembark
at Adelaide [Ian Stitt, MVG 11]
Christine Bean, now Edmonson [MVG]
Ann Catchpole and mother see Scott below [OC]
Mrs Faulker with daughter Judy now Chisholm [MVG 11]
Christine Edmondson [MVG10]
Mrs Faulkener with daughter Judith now Chisholm [MVG]
Rosemary Fell [OC] nee Reeve and Mrs Kathleen Reeve [MVG3]
Kathleen Reeve [MVG10]
Mrs Scott with daughter Ann, now Catchpole [MVG]
Ian S D Stitt with Mrs Stitt [MVG11]
Susan Whitley nee Kennaway and sister Pippa in charge of
Mrs Violet Payne and baby [OC] and [MVG3]
Narkunda - left 21.01.42 for Freemantle
arriving 27.01.42
The Aorangi and Narkunda left together under escort which left them after
2 days. Passengers on Narkunda who wanted to go on from Fremantle to Adelaide,
Melbourne or Sydney transferred to Aorangi at Fremantle. An outbreak of
dysentery on board made some passengers intending to go further, disembark
at Adelaide [Ian Stitt, MVG 11]
[NB Cofepow member Catharine Butcher has a complete list of passengers
who evacuated on Narkunda. This information should also be available via
the website of the National Archives of Australia.]
Phyllis Avery with children Susan 3 and Gordon [MH]
Roger Barrett with mother and brother [MVG10]
Mrs Miriam Booker (wife of George Booker, Dunlop's) [MP]
Ann Donnan, mother and 2 sisters [MVG10]
?Roger Eagle, brother Christopher and mother [bbc.co.uk.WWII archive ID3998334]
Peter Gray [MVG10]
John Heytman and mother [CN37]
Patricia Hodgkin now Wood [MVG 11]
Mrs Hosking and children [MP]
Graeme Sorley, mother and sister [bbc.co.uk WWII archive ID A2127629}
Anne Wilson [Cofepow website]
Islam/Islamic - left Singapore mid Jan 1942 for India. Possibly this is the one with over 1000 Japanese women and children internees and some allied civiians including
Miss Norah Inge, missionary [MP]
Duchess of Bedford - arrived Singapore 28.01.42
with 12,000 troops. Left 30.01.42 with 1,221 refugees [MS] for Batavia,
Colombo, Cape Town and Liverpool. Arrived Liverpool 19.03.42. Left with
Wakefield and Westpoint with total of 4000 passengers [MP]
NB Jonathan Moffat has a passenger list on arrival at Liverpool, not departure
fr Singapore: ie. no list of those who got off at Cape Town.
Diana Auten, hospital matron, delivered Diana Bedford Vaughan, see below
[MH]
Gillian Bullivant [MVG 10]
Anthony Cooper and sister [MVG13]
Penny Dembrey nee Todman [MVG 8]
Ellen Fraser and daughter Susan. [JK]
Mrs L M Gray and 2 daughters, one of which newborn. [KF]
Elizabeth Norah Gulliford, nurse. [JM]
Dora Gurney and 3 small children [JK]
Daphne Harrison. [JM]
Eileen Mary Hawley and son Peter aged 2. [JM]
Marie, cousin of Veronica Vaughan and Noeline Leigh, see below [MH]
Marjorie Hudson [JK]
Margaret Kavanagh with Marsha [MVG]
Maisie Keyzar with children Max 2 and David 1.[JM]
Noeline Leigh, sister of Veronica Vaughan see below, with daughter Vivian
Mrs Owen with son Gareth Owen [MVG10]
Mrs Barbara Parnell, MAS nurse, Ipoh [MP]
Doris Pelton, daughter of Doris Cox [MH]. [CN33]
Mrs G R Percy and 3 daughters of whom the 2 older were married [JM] and
one son [JK][
Ann Potter [MVG 11]
Malcolm Read [OC] [article in CN33]
Tddman, see Dembrey above
HIlary Tuxford with daughter Gill now Bullivant [MVG 11]
Veronica Vaughan with daughter Morven 10 months. Daughter Diana Bedford
born on board [MH]
Mrs Ellen Waldock with children Shirley, John, Jilla and Philip. [MH]
USS Westpoint - left on tide 30.01.42 [JK] with Wakefield and Duchess of Bedford
USS Wakefield (previously Old Manhattan) - left 30.01.42 with Westpoint and D of Bedford arrived Colombo
Paddy Beegan - Mollie Beegan [MH]
Mrs Collings and Susannah 5 [MH]
Pat McCormack [CM]
Empress of Japan - left 31.01.42 with 1,221 evacuees as causeway being blown. Batavia, then England via South Africa
Ann, a doctor [MH]
Phyllis Beton and young son [MS]
Kathleen Bowers, 7 months pregnant w 2 yr old Georgina now towers [MH]
Gillian Bullivant [MVG10]
Mrs Connelly [MH]
Mrs Eddington [MS]
June Ferguson, later Reeve Tucker, aunt of Joy Harding, qv. [MVG]
Win Gibson and daughter Jill [MVG10]
Dr Ann Gibson-Hill [MH]
Mrs Dora Gurney and 3 children [MP]
Joy Harding and daughter Ann now Evans [MVG]
Jessie Hutchinson and baby [MS]
Edith Kellet and daughter [JK]
Joan Kitching aged 19 [MS]
Margaret Leach, Tam and 4 children [MH]
Nancy Madoc and son David [MS]
Kay Melrose [MVG 15]
Tibbie Morrison [MH]
Mrs Patterson and son Ian 1, [MVG]
Katharine Sim [MS]
Margaret Stalder, disembarked South Africa [MH]
Minnie 'Flop' Steel wife of Harold 'Geordie' Steel [MH]
Gillian Tuxford [MVG]
Bill Vowler [MVG10] and family [MS]
Valerie Walker, mother and sister [MS]
A group of White Russian women, refugees from Shanghai [MH]
February 1942
Felix Roussel - Free French crew w British captain. Arrived damaged 02.02.42 with convoy BM12. Left Singapore 06.02.42 MP says 08.02.42 with 110 passengers mainly women and children. Colombo, Bombay, Australia
An Anglo-Indian sergeant [DP]
An Australian women [DP]
A Czech woman with her little girl [DP]
A very old Chinese woman [DP}
A Chinese and an Indian boy, both 2 [DP]
Muriel Collings and daugter Ann, 3 [DP]
Mrs D, over 40 with baby [DP]
Mrs English, wife of Prof English, Gynaecologist RAMC, to Bombay where
children Tom and Margaret at school [MVG 13]
A Eurasian nurse from Singapore General Hospital [DP]
Mrs Dorothy Fawcett [MP]
Joan Forman [MVG10]
Mrs Marjorie Hudson [NB]
Mrs Law and daughter Pom [IM]
Jean Lips [MVG10] sister of Malcolm, Ronald and Ian Mitchell [MVG]
Mrs Mitchell with 13 year old daughter Jean now Lipps. Mrs Mitchell's
sister Alex and her daughter June were also on board [MVG 11]
Miss Murray [JH]
Miss Pring [JH]
Carol Purdie, Robin 4, Diana newborn [MH]
A White Russian woman injured by flying glass [DP]
A woman, far gone in pregnancy, posted through a porthole, went into labour
[DP]
Darvil and Kinta left 09.02.42 with Australian 2/3 Motor Transport Co, having fulfilled duties. [PE]
SS Anglo Indian. Reached TP 12.02.42
SS Auby (636 tons) Reached TP
Tien Kwang/Tun Kwang. Bombed and sunk at Pompong Island 14.02.02 with SS Kuala
Many government servants and RAF [MP]
SS Aquarius (6094 tons) Sunk
110 passengers, possibly only 3 survivors [MP]
SS Norah Moller (4433 tons?) Shelled and set on fire
57 passengers, some women and children. Passengers rescued by HMAS Hobart and HMS Tenedos, the latter rescuing 28 wounded of which 6 did not survive. Possibly reached TP 04.02.42 [MP]
Silver Gull - left with 166 women and children, broke down on Rhio. Towed from Rhio by Capt Bill Renolds in his converted Japanese fishing boat Kohfuku Maru, later Suey Sui Fah (later the 'Krait' now in Sydney Harbour) [GB]
Estimated 166 - 216 women and children, mainly families of Dutch Indonesian
garrison soldiers at Rhio. To Pompong then Rengat having taken off people
thence and from other islands. These included [GB]
Sister Dowling
Sister Brenda Lee (Mrs McDuff) from Batu Gajah hospital
Sister Patsy Brennan (Mrs Clark) from Batu Gajah hospital
Madura. Reported to have later sailed from Batavia (TP) in last days of Feb. [MP]
Cap St Jaques - Bombay
Ruth Lean w ch John, David, Richard [JM]
Rochuissen - Dutch cattle boat with no passenger accommodation. Reached Tanjong Priok 05.02.42 [MP]
200 passeners including 50 Malayan Broadcasting Company personnel
Enid Innes Kerr MBC [MP]
Sedjatra - Wooden schooner (30 tons) Left Singapore 04.02.42, later left Tjilitjap
5 civilians [MP]
3 RAF [MP]
SS City of Canterbury - left Singapore ?06.02.42
Women and children [MP]
RAF personnel 453 squadron. [MP]
HMS Ban Hong Liong (1671 tons) in company with Sin Aik See. Reached TP left 2 days later destination unknown.
Troops and civilians [MP]
SS Plancius - reached TP [MP]
840 mainly women and children evacuees from ships from Singapore, possibly for South Africa but more likely Bombay [MP]
HMS Monarch (?Dominion Monarch) - left Singapore 08.02.42 for New Zealand [MP]
Silver Larch - left Singapore 10.02.42. Reached Java. [MP]
SS Ipoh (Straits Shipping Co) - left 10.02.42 Reached TP 14.02.42 [MP]
200 women and children, many the wives of Malaya Survey Dept [MH]
300 RAF personnel [MH]
Bulan/Bulang - left Singapore ?10/11/12.02.42. Arrived Tanjong Priok, went on to Ceylon [MP]
Agan (244 tons) - left Singapore 11.02.42. Either reached Palembang or was sunk and survivors picked up by the Tengorah [MP]
150 civilians including women and children
Giang Bee (Chiang Bee) (1200 tons) Chinese owned coaster. Left Singapore 13.2.42. MP says 11.02.42 Sunk by Japanese. Very few survivors. Details in [NB]
200 - 300 old men, women and children. 200 - 240 killed in lifeboats
or drowned.
Mrs Ismail and Molly [W&S]
Ping Wo - pre-war Yangtze steamer, 200' long, 6' draft. Left Singapore 11.02.42. Arrived Fremantle 04.03.42 Towed destroyer Vendetta to Fremantle. [MP]
200 civilian passengers [MP]
SS Jalavihar/Jalibahar (5330 tons) - left 11.02.42. Heavily bombed in Durian Straits but reached TP then Ceylon
SS Jalakrishna - left 11.02.42 at 1700 hours. Possibly cleared harbour on 12.02.42 in convoy with Delamore, Empire Star, Jalibahar & Li Sang. Damaged by bombs in Sunda Straits but reached Tanjong Priok, then Colombo. [MP]
Mrs Francis Clarke who with others from Singapore later boarded Plancius at Tanjong Priok, though some reports say no passengers [MP]
Scout - left 10.02.42
Naval personnel and Megan Spooner, wife of Read Admiral Spooner [MH]
Edang - left 11.02.42 with 11 other vessels in slower part of convoy heading for TP.
Li Sang sailed c 1730 on 11.02.42, might have cleared harbour on 12.02.42 [MP]
SS Jalratna (3942 tons) Sailed night of 11.02.42. Reached Tjilitjap, which left on 19.02.42 [MP]
Gorgon (3533 tons)( Blue Funnel Line) - left 10.02.42 With Empire Star formed advance guard of mass evacuation. In same convoy as Durban, Kedah, Stronghold.
Gwendolyn Mary Oak-Rind nee Grafton [JM]
Mrs K Stapledon [IWM 85/31/1]
Empire Star & Yoma. [MP] Survived Japanese
dive bombing attack. Reached Tanjong Priok, then Fremantle.
358 - 380 passengers- see Empire Star below
Kedah - small coastal ship Straits Shipping Co. left ?13.02.42. Survived repeated bombing and shelling thanks to Captain Sinclair and eventually arrived Batavia. Survived war to lead RN fleet back into Singapore Harbour September 1945 [GB]
Possibly 750 men, women and children including
Mrs Muriel Reilly, Governor's cipher clerk. [MH]
SS Hong Kheng (6167 tons) sailed night of 11.02.42
Empire Star - left 12.02.42 with Gorgon under escort. Survived severe attack, reached Batavia then Australia
Alison Nelson [OC]
Gwendolyn Mary Oak-Rind nee Grafton [JM]
2,154 military, naval and RAF personnel and large contingent of Australian,
British and Indian military nurses [MS] and [JK] MP says 2000 RAF ground
crew and service families.
HMS Scott Harley sailed daybreak 12.02.42, arrived TP. For full story see Cofepow website.Most European passengers shipped from TP 21.02.42 to Bombay on Plancius. Some went on to Australia on the Johan de Witt [MP]
[MP] lists 170 women and 30 men, including
Michael Ashe
Roland Bradell
Miss Linda Brash
Mrs Annie L Clark (wife of Norman Clark, engineer at Govt Rice Mills)
Mrs Elliott/Mrs Sharpe-Elliott (canteen worker MAS, husband engineer at
Naval Base)
Mrs W F Joyce Fitzpatrick (husband with Singapore Cold Storage)
Eliza Martin/Mrs Eric Martin
Mrs Enid Miller
Mr & Mrs Percy
Nessie Rhodes/Mrs 'Dusty' Rhodes of KL
Winifred Sinclair
Dr J W Scarff, his wife, daughters Elizabeth and Jopin and 2 boys
Joan Winchester/Mrs V A Winshester (wife of a vet and whose brother in
law was a doctor)
A Russian mother and daughter (latter had a hairdresser salon at Raffles
Hotel)
A Secretary to the Governor of Singapore: descibed as about 35 and 16
stone.
A Naval Policeman
Possibly a Mr Potts, Melvin Thompson, Mrs Duke and Mrs Ray ('of the Municpality)
and one child
SS Redan (531 tons) - Thai Navigation Co. Sunk in Berhala Strait.
89 passengers including 6 women and 3 children. About 30 people including 4 women and 2 children got away by boat and were captured by the Japanese.
Sing Wo (2500 tons) - Yangtze River Boat. Left 12.02.42. Bombed and ran aground at Muntok where passengers imprisoned.
230 passengers including Rohan Rivet, author of 'Behind Bamboo.'
Fanling - Motor launch. Left 13.02.42. Sunk in Bangka Straits
47 passengers, 4 survivors
HMS Chang Teh (or Tay) - left 13.02.42. Sunk in Durian Strait.
SS Kuala - left 13.02.42 at about the same
time as Mata Hari and Vyner Brook. Bomb damaged while waiting to leave
Singapore, 2 killed and buried at sea, many casualties. Sunk by bombing
while at anchor off Pompong island. 14.02.42. Many searing survivor stories
5/600 people on board including most of Public Works Department, RAF Radio
Location Unit with gear, various troops and women and children of many
nationalities, large group of nurses and 5, IWM-S says 7 women doctors,
ordered to leave.
IWM-M is Mrs de Malbranche's account,
IWM-S is Edith Stevenson,
IWM-L is Dr M J Lyon
NIL is 'When Singapore was Syonan-to' by N I Low
Sister Allen [IWM-M]
'Beautiful Eurasian Girl' c 16, died of peritonitis after belly blast
[IWM-M]
Mrs Binney, Head of MAS, injured by shrapnel, died by drowning [IWM-M]
Muriel Bostock, army nurse [IWM-S]
Miss Brebner, Matron of Singapore Hospital, killed on Pompong [IWM-M]
Mrs Cherry, Head of Singapore MAS, killed by bombing [IWM-M]
Nurse Paddy Clarke [MP]
Mary Cooper (Irish) sole survivor of Tanjong Pinang. Died of typhoid in
Palembang [IWM-M] Died of beri-beri because of malnutrition [IWM-S]
Nurse Hetty Corke (killed in bombing on Pompong) [MP]
Dr Craig. Died on Senajang after rescue from Pompong [IWM-S]
Dr Elsie Crowe (Singapore Obstetrician) Severely wounded by bomb blast
[IWM-M]
Mrs Curtiss, wife of Brigadier Curtiss [IWM-M]
Nurse Darlington, killed by bomb on board [IWM-S]
Mrs Doughty [MP]
Miss Doughty [MP]
Jenny Doughty 27, schoolmistress Malacca, both legs smashed, one amputated
on beach at Pompong, died later in Padang [IWM-M]
Captain and Mrs Hancock, he Governor of Singapore Prison, both killed
by bombing
[IWM-M]
Members of Hartley family [MS]
Mrs Hawes wounded and permanently crippled [IWM-M]
Miss Hu, teacher at Chong Hock School [NIL]
Fay Hyde 'Richard Hoops's sister' killed on Tanjong Pinang [IWM-L]
Jean 'a little Eurasian girl of about 9' who kept up morale by leading
singing. [IWM[
Miss Jones, Australian nurse, very powerful swimmer, rescued lots of people
[IWM-M]
Matron Jones, Alexandra Hospital [IWM-S]
Mrs Nora Kitching, [MS] killed
Nurse Janet Lim (author of 'Sold for Silver') Badly injured by bomb blast,
survived, was interned, returned to Singapore, became Matron of St Andrew's
Hospital
[IWM-S]
Grace Low, w children Nancy, Ethel, Ruth and Son, Head? of Chong Hock
School, wife of N I Low, ?Head of Raffles Institution. Called in passing
tongkang (junk) in Amoy dialect and persuaded captain to take Europeans
as well as Chinese from Pompong. Eventually got back to Singapore [NIL]
Dr Marjory J Lyon (Johore Govt Obstetrician and Surgeon) severely wounded
by bomb blast [IWM-M] but survived [IWM-L]
Nurse Brenda Macduff (who today lives in NZ) [MP]
Nurse Olive MacFarlane (killed on Singapore docks, buried at sea)
Nurse MacPherson (left Pompong on Tanjong Pinang, killed) [IWM-S]
Miss McDougal, injured [IWM-S]
Nursing Sister Marjorie de Malmanche [IWM-M]
Mrs Madden [MP]
Mrs R Napper [MVG13]
Olga Neubronner [MP]
Major (Gp Captain [MP]) and Mrs Nunn [MS] he died on Rosenboom, she died
on lifeboat [NB]
Miss Sie, teacher at Chong Hock School [NIL]
Nurse Jean Smith [MP]
Miss Spedding, an Army Matron [IWM-M]
Edith 'Woodie' Stevenson, Nursing Sister, Singapore Children's Orthopaedic
Hospital, then Alexandra Hospital [IWM-S]
Olga Stringer 'Richard Hoops's aunt' killed on Tanjong Pinang [IWM-L]
Dr Margaret Thompson. Anaesthetist. Injured on board by shrapnel, survived
internment but severely scarred by Japanese guard [IWM-M] [IWM-S]
Matron Margot Turner QA, injured, survived post war Dame Margot Turner
Matron in Chief QAIMNS [IWM-S]
Nurse Edith Wood
Tanjong Pinang - left ?13.02.42 Collected wounded and 180 women and children from Pompong Island. Blown up by shell fire. Very few survivors [MS]
Margot Turner from Kuala [JK]
Possibly killed on board were [MS]
Nora Kitching
Mrs Hartley
Violet Samuel
Ying Ping left 13.02.42 [RE]
SS Sing Kheng Seng Straits Shipping Co.
45 crew from the Empress of Asia and unknown others [MP]
Mata Hari - left 12.02.42 [GB] 13.02.42 [MP] Captured by Japanese in Banka Straits and passengers taken to Muntok for internment
300 passengers+ 120 more including
Mrs Russell-Roberts, died in internment [GB]
Mrs Jennings died in internment [GB]
large group of nurses including
Nurse Phyllis Briggs, living in UK [MP]
Christine Briggs [W&S]
Mamie Colley [W&S]
Margaret Dryburgh [W&S]
Vyner Brooke - left 12.02.42. Built to take
12 passengers, left with 250 [W&S]
Dive bombed and sunk. Many Australian nurses on board.
Mrs Brown and Shelagh [JK]
Beth Cuthbertson [GB]
Matron Drummond [GB]
Sister Ennis [GB]
Sister Iola Harper [GB]
Mavis Hannah
Sister Betty Jeffrey
Matron Paschke [GB] (drowned0
Elizabeth Simmons [W&S]
Sister Jessie Simons [GB]
Mrs Brown and Shelagh [GB]
Dorothy MacCleod [GB]
Nora Chambers with sister Ena Murray and sick husband John
Maudie James [W&S]
Olga Neubrunner, heavily pregnant but miscarried baby on the pier at Muntok
[W&S]
Mrs Parfait [GB]
Olga Springer [GB]
Mischa Warman 4 year old White Russian from Shanghai. Parents killed.
[W&S]
Group of survivors on Muntok discovered by Jap patrol16.02.42, men bayonetted, women marched into the sea and shot. One survivor, Vivian Bullwinkle. [MS, JK, MP]
Hong Kwang - left 13.02.42. Abandoned Java 09.03.42 [MP]
Name Unknown small coaster left 13.02.42
12 men and a woman named Mary Jenkins. [MP]
Rantau (Straits Steamship Co) (75 tons)
Relau (75 tons) Palm oil tanker of Straits
Shipping Co. Captured by Japanese
66 passengers
survivors en route including 13 from Scorpion [MP]
with Rantau and Relau were Chiang Tay, Tien Kwang, Kwang Wu, Mata Hari, Hung Jao (Yangtze customs boat) and Fairmile, fast naval patron launch w Spooner and Pulford.
Huang Jao - former Yangtse River customs boat, picked up Giang Bee survivors and single survivor of Giang Tay. Subject of war crimes tribunal, sunk by gunfire, women and children on board.
Kwang Wu - left 13.02.42. Sunk off Pompong island.
Blumut - Small craft of Johore Marine Dept.
Captured by Japanese off Banka 16/17.02.42
29 passengers. [MP]
HMS Grasshopper - left 13.02.42 with Kuala
but ordered back to take more passengers. Left 12.30 14.02.42. Bombed
w Fairmile and Dragonfly. Ran ashore on Sempang island, women and wounded
taken ashore but no water so taken to Sungei Buaya island, heroic work
by nursing sister H V Fisher and naval ratings. Two babies delivered on
Posik Island, mothers' names not known. [GB] Grasshopper blew up. [GB]
On board Grasshopper Mr &Mrs Lampen-Smith (NZers) whose son had left
on Charon arrived Padang too late to evacuate. Interned Bankinang with
Brenda Macduff, Br nurse.
HMSs Barlane, Barrier, Barricade and Fastnet were boom defence vessels built in Bristol in 1937, specifically for Singapore harbour defences. under Commander G L Baily [RM]
Evacuated by flying boat
Ceres? G-AETX 4/1/42?
Elizabeth Alexander with Billy 5, Mary 3 and Bernice 4 months [MH]
Robert Arbuthnott with mother and brother [MVG &MH]
USN President Polk on her maiden voyage Bombay to USA under Captain Dutton and Commander Jeffs took the following to the US [DP]
Carol Purdie with Robin 2 and Diana 3 weeks
Muriel Collings and daughter Ann
A little boy called Larry
A bell boy called Tom
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