Description
Object description
Wordprocessed semi-autobiographical account (26pp), written in 2008, but including interesting extracts from three letters written by her mother, Mrs M M Ainslie, between February 1942 and January 1943, recording how her parents left the United Kingdom for Malaya in September 1940 when her father, Dr W D Ainslie, was appointed the Medical Officer of Health for Penang, her birth in May 1941 and her hurried evacuation with her mother from Penang to Singapore and then Java after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941, their onward passage on the SS NELLORE from Java to Western Australia in January 1942, arrangements for the reception of evacuees in Western Australia and some description of their accommodation and activities as evacuees with little money living in various locations in the state, their receipt of radio messages and postcards from January 1943 onwards telling them that her father had become a civilian internee in Singapore, their passage back to the United Kingdom via the Suez Canal on the SS NESTOR (October 1943 – January 1944) and life with her mother's parents in Northumberland until her father's release from internment and eventual repatriation in February 1946, and the gradual re-establishment of their family life; together with wordprocessed transcripts of extracts (3pp) of two further letters written by her mother to her father (April and August 1945) outlining her life during 'a long and dreary four years' while they were separated and of extracts (14pp) from her diary for January – December 1942 referring mainly to the practicalities of her life as an evacuee living in other people's homes in Western Australia and her distress at the lack of any communication with, or information about, her husband; and three laser copy photographs of Mrs Ainslie and her husband and daughter (1944 – 1947).
Content description
Wordprocessed semi-autobiographical account (26pp), written in 2008, but including interesting extracts from three letters written by her mother, Mrs M M Ainslie, between February 1942 and January 1943, recording how her parents left the United Kingdom for Malaya in September 1940 when her father, Dr W D Ainslie, was appointed the Medical Officer of Health for Penang, her birth in May 1941 and her hurried evacuation with her mother from Penang to Singapore and then Java after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941, their onward passage on the SS NELLORE from Java to Western Australia in January 1942, arrangements for the reception of evacuees in Western Australia and some description of their accommodation and activities as evacuees with little money living in various locations in the state, their receipt of radio messages and postcards from January 1943 onwards telling them that her father had become a civilian internee in Singapore, their passage back to the United Kingdom via the Suez Canal on the SS NESTOR (October 1943 – January 1944) and life with her mother's parents in Northumberland until her father's release from internment and eventual repatriation in February 1946, and the gradual re-establishment of their family life; together with wordprocessed transcripts of extracts (3pp) of two further letters written by her mother to her father (April and August 1945) outlining her life during 'a long and dreary four years' while they were separated and of extracts (14pp) from her diary for January – December 1942 referring mainly to the practicalities of her life as an evacuee living in other people's homes in Western Australia and her distress at the lack of any communication with, or information about, her husband; and three laser copy photographs of Mrs Ainslie and her husband and daughter (1944 – 1947).
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