tablecloth, embroidered signatures, Changi, Far East Civilian Internee

1 A rectangular blue tablecloth bearing 126 embroidered signatures in various colours. The following is a list of the signatures as could be best read and where it has been possible their names have been linked to other Changi items and indicate some of the roles they played in the prison, it is in no way definitive: EDITH A LOVERIDGE (Japanese quilt, former missionary) B HEGARTY (Bridget, Japanese & Australian quilt, a nursing sister, the last Commandent, suceeding Mrs Chowns) LYNNE M BROOKS A L GRIFFITH-JONES (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, member of prominent Eurasian family, in charge of camp gardening at Sime Road) H I WORTH (Principle CMO in Women's camp) DOROTHY NIXON (EPH 4566, succeeded Dr Williams as Commandent) A M POPE (Addie, nursing sister) NORA CHOWNS (EPH 4566, suceeded Mrs Nixon as Commandent) M SPARKS (EPH 4566) NANCY MCGREGORY (EPH 4566) L M THOMAS (Lady Thomas, wife of the Governor of Singapore, Sir Shenton Thomas) ELEANOR HOPKINS (First Commandent of the Women's Camp) JOSEPHINE FOSS (EPH 4566, camp superintendant in Changi, fluent in Chinese, later awarded OBE) FERGUSON (Mrs, deputy to Dr Hopkins) E M L BRYANT (matron of the camp hospital) KATHERINE TOUSSAINT (British quilt, Fatigue Officer) GWEN KINNEAR (Japanese quilt, EPH 4566) PAT MEW (EPH 4566) G E JENNINGS HILDA L H... CICELY D WILLIAMS (suceeded Dr Hopkins as Commandent, internationally known pediatrician, awarded the CMG in 1968) A DALY B BROWN D DOWNE (EPH 4566, ran the women's camp kitchen before the men took over) H D WHITE (Japanese quilt, teamaker for the camp) VIOLET AITKEN (Japanese quilt, assistant teamaker) M HADLEY (EPH 4566) DOROTHY CORNELIUS (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, wife of POW Officer) E T MURRAY-AY (Murray-Aynesley, known as Tania, Russian Jew, trained as opera singer, made money for camp funds by telling fortunes, taught Miss Billiewicz singing) DOROTHY MATHER (British quilt, EPH 4566, wife of an MCS Officer) TRUDIE VAN ROODE (British quilt, Girl Guide quilt, EPH 4556, helped run the Girl Guide group, had a beauty salon in Singapore) MARY HODGSON (British quilt, EPH 4566) CONSTANCE E RENTON (Connie, took over the school from Mrs Milne) F M KING (EPH 4566) XENIE BILLIEWICZ (EPH 4566, teenager, half Russian, half Chinese, Mrs Murray-Aynsley taught her singing) MOLLIE JONES JUDY GOOD (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, nursing sister, acted as a gardner at Changi) MARIE SETH (EPH 4566, teenager) MARGARET BURNS (Japanese & Australian quilts) B H EGGER (Beatrice Helen, EPH 4566) PHOEBE FREDERICKS L MOSES MRS V SAHARENGUINEL MAIRI ONG (British quilt, EPH 4566, English married to a Chinese man) S GETREUER (Stella, Czech medical doctor) SHEILA EARLY (Australian quilt, nursing sister) I BENTLEY (Isabell, EPH 4566) LUCY FLETCHER (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, nursing sister) EDNA ALDWORTH (nursing sister) IRENE WELLS (nursing sister) R A CONTENAY M M BEST (Maud Mildred) HELEN WILLS (Australian & British quilts, EPH 4566, wife of a police officer) EVELYN DINGE A L JAMIESON DEBORAH J GIFFORD (Joyce) CONSTANCE G SLEEP (EPH 4566, wife of a MCS man) MR N HOOPER BETTY L MILNE (EPH 4566 -Beth L Milne, a headmistress, organised camp entertainment) I W DELTUFO (EPH 4566) BESS ROGERS (Deputy Head and Enrolment Officer of the Medical Auxiliary Service prior to War beaking out) MAUREEN EISINGER (former teacher, married to a Czech refugee) M A BATEMAN (conducted art classes at Changi) V M H PATTERSON (Japanese quilt) L L BACH (EPH 4566) JOAN STANLEY-CAREY (Australian quilt, an artist who conducted classes for the youngest children) I D BROWN (British & Japanese quilts, second assistant teamaker) A E BELL (nursing sister, her daughter Mary was born while in Changi) F M JORDAN P M THORNLEY KATHLEEN LIM (British woman married to a Chinese man) HELEN BECK (British & Japanese quilt, EPH 4566, wife of a police officer) D MACDONALD (Dorothy "Anne", EPH 4566, nursing sister) FREDDY BLOOM (Australian & Japanese quilts, EPH 4566, wife of POW Philip Bloom, journalist, American by birth, editor of Camp Magazine -POW-WOW, later became President of the Deaf Children's Society and awarded OBE) BIDDY BRYANT (EPH 4566 -B A Bryant, nursing sister) LUCY C MACINDRE (over 70, helped nurse soldiers in the Fullerton Building) E A MOIR (Japanese quilt, EPH 4566) JILL DAWSON (wife of Mr Christopher Dawson, ADC to the Governor, EPH 4566) K M CLARK (EPH 4566, nursing sister, helped run the nursery) ELIZABETH ENNIS (Australia quilt, EPH 4566 & responsile for starting Girl Guide group within camp) KATHERINE DE MOUBRAY (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, wife of George de Moubray, British Commissioner in Tenggara (?)) MARY BUCKLEY (British quilt, EPH 4566, nursing sister) E H MULVANEY (Ethel Mulvaney, Australian & Japanese quilts, EPH 4566, initiated the idea of creating the quilts, representative of the Canadian Red Cross) KATHERINE KIM JOAN DRAPER (EPH 4566) PAT MITCHELL (EPH 4566) J W JEFFERIES (British quilt, EPH 4566) C M UNIACKE (EPH 4566, New Zealand nursing sister) BEE GEOK HENG (Chinese nurse in Miyako Hospital) K KANNAGASAMIL (staff at Miyako Hospital) A SPITTER (staff at Miyako Hospital) JESSIE ARTOON (Arab nurse in Miyako Hospital) J V LANDON (possibly English doctor) LOUISE CHEW (Chinese nurse in Miyako Hospital) JENNY FONG (Chinese nurse in Miyako Hospital) LEONARD SINGAPORE (Bishop Leonard Wilson) A P BENJIE (nurse, possibly matron, in Miyako Hospital) W JAUERCHAT WONG KIM YIP (Chinese nurse in Miyako Hospital) GIRTY TEN HOOP (staff at Miyako Hospital) SORBY ADAMS (Principle of St Andrew's school) LIN BEE GEOK (Chinese nurse in Miyako Hospital) V DE CRUZ (staff at Miyako Hospital) M E YOUNG (music teacher) ELIZABETH CHOY (awarded the OBE on liberation) ELSE GREY JUDY MCIVOR (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, nursing sister) SYLVIA SILLEY (EPH 4566) K STEWART (Administrative Matron of Singapore General Hospital) E DOHERTY (nursing sister) PATRICIA WILLIAMS (Pat, EPH 4566 interned with her mother, Mildred) JANE TROUBRIDGE (had a dress shop in Kuala Lumpur) KATHLEEN NELSON (her husband committed suicide while in prison) MILDRED WILLIAMS (EPH 4566, mother of Patricia Williams) MARION WILLIAMS (Australian & British quilts, EPH 4566, nursing sister) ANNE RACKMAN (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, nursing sister) TOBY WILLIAMS (wife of a planter, helped on POW-WOW Magazine, sister of Dolly Toby, also at Changi) M SMALLWOOD (Australian quilt, in charge of the children and diets, awarded the OBE for her care of the children) SUE WILLIAMS (Australian quilt, EPH 4566, nursing sister) JEANETTE ROBINSON GENE BALES (ran the Coconut Club in Singapore) EDITH LASCELLES RATTRAY (Japanese quilt) M CLARK P R ELLIOTT (EPH 4566, mission doctor, crippled) M SHELTON PALMER (died in Sime Road Camp) HELEN ANNE LATTA (EPH 4566, nursing sister) MARCIA FOWLER (EPH 4566, had a mental break-down while in camp) NELLA B MACDONALD (Bremna, teacher)

Embroidered tablecloth, looted from Fullerton Building, with signatures of internees in Changi prison and staff at Miyako Hospital, 1942-43. The item belonged to Miss Mary Thomas who was interned in Changi and also spent time in the Miyako Hospital suffering from dysentery.

Embroidered signatures are of internees in Changi prison and staff at Miyako Hospital, 1942-43. The item belonged to Mary Thomas (b. 1906) who was interned in Changi and also spent time in the Miyako Hospital suffering from dysentery. Many of the names can also be found on the three Changi quilts made by the women during their first year of internment for the men imprisoned nearby. Some of the names can also be found replicated on EPH 4566, which is an embroidered bed sheet with signatures made by the women at Sime Road Camp, where the Changi prisoners were moved in May 1944 and on EPH 6519, a small tablecloth embroidered at Changi.

Signatures -see description