A CHILD PRISONER OF WAR: The Story of Thomas Ryan - Singapore 1942-45 - Couverture souple

Ryan, Christopher Terence

 
9798454528607: A CHILD PRISONER OF WAR: The Story of Thomas Ryan - Singapore 1942-45
Couverture souple
ISBN 13 : 9798454528607
Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

An account of my father, Thomas Ryan's experiences as a young teenage seaman with Canadian Pacific ships during WW2; his being sunk in the Atlantic by a German bomber; rescued by the Royal Navy's HMS Tatar; then sunk again off Singapore by the Japanese on troopship RMS Empress of Asia and his subsequent time as a POW in Changi and Sime Road camps until the war ended. His return to education in the secret prison camp school, his working in the camp hospital, and the awakening of a desire to study medicine. HIs post-war enrolment in Liverpool University and subsequent qualification as a medical practitioner.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798454528607
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
107
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Personne responsable
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