Norman and Ivy (Bunty) Wakelin's History

Subject: Ivy (known as Bunty) Wakelin

Description

Norman and Ivy (contributor's parents) met during the war at the hospital. He was a pilot. Then the Japanese invasion meant that mum took six months to get back to the UK. Met up again at Southampton. Both managed to escape. Dad was quite ill by the time he got back in 1941/2. Then back to the UK - Sunderland.

Timeline

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August 1938: General Hospital, Singapore

18 January 1941: St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore

1941: Francis Hill, Malay Peninsula

1941: Margate Road, Singapore

1941: Brastagi, Hill Station, Medan

6 December 1941: Singapore

7 December 1941: Singapore

31 January 1942: Singapore

31 January 1942: Keppel Harbour, Singapore?

February 1942: Colombo, Sri Lanka

1942: King Edward Hotel, Durban, South Africa

1942: Cape Town, South Africa

1942: Freetown, Sierra Leone

May 1942: Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, UK

May 1942: Birmingham, UK

May 1942: Cleobury Mortimer, UK

1942: London, UK

June 1942: Guildford, UK

June 1942: Waterloo station, London, UK

June 1942: Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, London, UK

June 1942: Cleobury Mortimer, UK

1942: North Luffenham, Rutland, UK