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Catherine Hilda CLEWETT
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- Catherine Hilda CLEWETT. Sister 208176, QAIMNS. S.R.N., C.M.B.
Born 1911 in Paris France to Charles Robert and Ada Clewett, nee Glenister of Holloway, London
20 February 1937 she nursing at General Lying in Hospital, York Road, London N.W.1.
1939 her parents were residing at Stane Way, Epsom, Surrey.
She was active service in Singapore in 1942 when the Japanese started to invade the region. She was a passenger on (Evacuation Ship) SS Kuala which had escaped from Singapore a day before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. This ship was sunk 12 hours later by Japanese bombers on 14 February 1942 near Pom Pong Island. Many women and children were killed on the ship itself, but the Japanese continued direct bombing of the sea whilst the survivors, who were desperately trying to swim the few hundred yards to safety on the shore of Pom Pong island. The bombing continued even onto the Island itself as the survivors scrambled across slippery rocks and up the steep slopes of the jungle tangled hills of this small uninhabited island in the Indonesian Archipelago.
There is no knowing where she was actually killed, she was aged 30years.
She is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore.
