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Marjorie Eveline GALE
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- Marjorie Eveline GALE. Sister 213310 TANS. 1st Malayan General Hospital
Daughter of John Henry Gale, and of Georgina Eleanor Gale, of Sevenoaks, Kent. She trained at the Park Hospital, Lewisham, and at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital.
She was called up for embodied service in June 1941 and shortly afterwards embarked for India. Later in the year she proceeded to Malaya. Served in various places including Singapore. 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 aged 34 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.
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore
