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Mary Ann BRAND
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- Mary Ann BRAND. Sister 206782 QAIMNSR. 1st Malayan General Hospital Daughter of Charles Cecil and Lucy Brand, of King's Heath, Birmingham. Gold Medallist, Queen's Hospital, Birmingham.
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 try 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. She survived the sinking but died later on the 16 February 1942 aged 44 from blast wounds to her abdomen incurred in the bombing of Pom Pong Island. Colonel Hennessey RAMC was with her when she died.
She was laid to rest in Tembilihan, Sumatra.
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore.
