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1 A white linen sheet embroidered with 216 signatures and figures from internment in Changi gaol. In the centre panel it reads 'INTERED KATONG, CHANGI PRISON & SIME ROAD CAMPS SINGAPORE. FEBRUARY 1942 TO SEPTEMBER 1945. HILDA G LACEY, MALAYAN NURSING SERVICE' 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, it is in no way definitive: H G LACEY (Australian quilt) K M NELSON (Kathleen) M A WEBSTER (Marie Alma) K H MACLEOD B MCNAB (Barbara) E A MOIR (Ellen Agnes, Japanese quilt, EPH 803) K M CLARK (EPH 803) JUNE WHITCHARD M WATSON (Australian quilt) L FLETCHER (Lucy, Australian quilt, EPH 803) ESSA FEREN MAUREEN G ESINGER MARION REGESSBACH ROSE DOWELL CONSTANCE MEDWYN FREDDY BLOOM (Australian & Japanese quilt, EPH 803) ALICE LA CLOUCHE (Australian quilt) KATHLEEN MACKENZIE FLORENCE L GREAVES CYNTHIA KOEK (Japanese quilt) DORIS I KENT (Irene) KATHLEEN KENNARD EVE MACCARTHY CONSTANCE SLEEP (EPH 803) TRUCE M CESLAW KATHERINE DE MOUBRAY (Australian quilt, EPH 803) CAROLINE HENESS PAT MITCHELL (EPH 803) DOROTHY TOBY AILSA D WEST (Dorothy) ALINA WILLIAMS E BULLOCK (Elsie) EILEEN JONES (Australian quilt) DOROTHY CORNELIUS (Australian quilt, EPH 803) M C C C HUGHES (Japanese quilt) HELEN BECK (Japanese quilt, EPH 803) DOROTHY NIXON (EPH 803) DENISE G I JACOB E T MURRAY-AYNESLEY ISABELL BENTLY (EPH 803) MARIE SETH (EPH 803) ETHEL I SOUTER (British quilt) MAUDE SHELTON-PALMER OLIVE J MULLEN MAIE GOLDEN H DE GRAFF B GREY E C WILLIS MARY THOMAS (Australian quilt) MARGARET WEBB B RUTHEN MARIE THEOFIL... J ROMAINE S CONSTANCE F M KING (appears twice, EPH 803) A J KRONIN (Angela) J FOSS (Josephine, EPH 803) NINA BANKS (British quilt) A L JANIGOR M... L RANK (Japanese quilt) EVA M SADLER (Maud) H H GRAY MARGARET STEWART BETTY M ALLEN DOROTHY MATHER (British quilt, EPH 803) B WALKER JOAN ...BOSTON C M UNIACKE (EPH 803) MOLLY BELL(Australian & Japanese quilts) MOLLIE HILL NORAH JONES (Australian & Japanese quilts) SUE WILLIAMS (Australian quilt, EPH 803) M P SCOTT (Australian, British & Japanese quilts) VERA MCINTYRE (Australian & British quilts) I W DEL TUFO (EPH 803) A WRAPE DOROTHY G BYRON TRUDE VAN ROODE (helped to run the Girl Guide group, British quilt, EPH 803) S DE JAGER (Japanese quilt) A DA HILLISS MAIRI ONG (British quilt, EPH 803) GLADYS TOMPKINS (Australian quilt) JEAN KEET KATHERINE HEATH (Australian quilt) MARGUERITE THOMAS JILL DAWSON (EPH 803) PAULINE DICKINSON (Japanese quilt) CATHERINE BANNERMAN AUGUSTA M CUTHBE (Mary) E F BROWN M SPARKS (EPH 803) P B ELLIOTT (EPH 803) E M L BRYANT (Ethel Mary Louise) M L BURSTALL VIOLET PAULINE AITKIN (Japanese quilt) MILDRED WILLIAMS (appears twice, EPH 803) ALICE EBEY M S MACDONALD (Australian quilt) MARION WILLIAMS (Australian quilt, EPH 803) JUDY GOOD (Australian quilt, EPH 803) BETH L MILNE (British quilt, EPH 803 -Betty L Milne) MARY HODGSON (British quilt, EPH 803) NELLY MENTIN MIMI WEISS EDITH LASCELLE RATTRAY GERTRUDE MIGHT L LINDSAY JACKSON A M THORNSLEY E J ALDWORTH JEVE BALES SYLVIA SILLEY (EPH 803) OLIVE SOMMERBY DOROTHY NIXON (appears twice, EPH 803) B H EGGER (Beatrice Helen, EPH 803) ELEANOR LAMB V M H PATTERSON (Violet May Hilda, Japanese quilt) WINIFRED HARNETT VICTORIA KING MARGARET ACKERS H D WHITE I J GRIST R A COURTENEY EILEAN M PEARSON (Japanese quilt) HILARY GREGORY-JONES M A BATEMAN HELEN WILLIS (Australian & British quilts, EPH 803) A L GRIFFITH JONES (Australian quilt, EPH 803) E AUSTIN-HOFER FLORENCE PLATT MAY ORR E BARNES (Elizabeth Ethel Rose) ALBERTA BAKER MARY UPHILL XENIA BILLIEWICZ (EPH 803) J PECK K W CLARK MARGARET EVANS JANE TRUBRIDGE K STEWART BETTY SMALLY (Australian quilt) JONAH GRIFFENS K B L MURPHY (Kathleen) B A BRYANT (Biddy, EPH 803) A RACKMAN (Anne, Australian quilt, EPH 803) J H NIELSON F RUSSEL-DAVIES (Freda, Australian & Japanese quilts) JULIANNE BLIGH GERRY COGAN (Geraldine, Australian quilt) FLORENCE M JORDAN (British quilt) MARGARET BURNS (Japanese quilt) ALANA CLIFTON ENA HUNT GEORGINA WHITE MILDRED WILLIAMS (appears twice, EPH 803) PATRICIA WILLIAMS (EPH 803) ANNA L ROBERTSON BARBARA A SMITH WINIFRED G BERR HELEN GRANT MACKIE JANET CUNNINGHAM EUPHEMIA REDFEARN PRISCILLA JACKSON LUCIA A BACH (EPH 803) V BURGIN (Valeria, Australian quilt) H F PRIESTLEY (Hilda Frances) HEA BARNES (Betsy Hea) DOROTHY MACDONALD (EPH 803) NANCY M GREGORY (EPH 803) HELEN M DINE M E YOUNG (EPH 803) N L CRONYN HELEN LATTA (Helen Anne Latta, EPH 803) J W JEFFERIES (British quilt, EPH 803) M SULLIVAN (Japanese quilt) J MCGUBBINS (Jessie) NORA CHOWNS (EPH 803) MARGUERITE EDGE PAT ...LY MILBOROUGH HADLEY(M Hadley, EPH 803) D DOWNE (EPH 803) JUDY MCIVOR (Australian quilt, EPH 803) GLADYS LINDSAY (Japanese quilt) JOAN DRAPER (EPH 803) ELIZABETH ENNIS (responsile for starting Girl Guide group within camp, Australia quilt, EPH 803) PAT MEW (EPH 803) NORAH DIXON (Japanese quilt) NORAH E DALTON HILDA BARBOUR ETHEL C MACLEOD HONORA CRAWSHAW (British quilt) GLADYS DAVIES TESS DOHERTY A JONES MIMI SOFELDT A WASHOW MARCIA FOWLER (EPH 803) A TOSTÉE JEN G...PARFITT JOAN MACINTOSH WHYTE (Australian quilt) B M AUGER M GRAHAM CLARK N STAFFORD M J H WHITE (Margaret Jean Howleson) OLGA WARREN DEBORAH J GIFFORD E PHEAR (Ethel) MARY BUCKLEY (British quilt, EPH 803) L LENA ELKINS H A KIRKBRIDE (Helen Anne) ETHEL MULVANEY (Australian & Japanese quilts & initiated the idea of creating the quilts) GWEN KINNEAR (Japanese quilt, EPH 803) H WATTS D C DAVIDSON F M KING (appears twice, EPH 803)

History note

Embroidered signatures are of internees from the Sime Road Camp, previously the women had been held at the Changi prison but were moved in May 1944. Many of the names can also be found on the three 'Changi quilts' made by the women during their first year of internment at Changi prison for the men imprisoned nearby. There are also embroidered pictures some of which are copied from the patches found on the 'Changi quilts'. Some of the names can also be found replicated on EPH 803 and EPH 6519, which are both embroidered tablecloths made in by women in Changi. For further information on some of the inmates see EPH 803

Embroidered

INTERED KATONG, CHANGI PRISON & SIME ROAD CAMPS SINGAPORE. FEBRUARY 1942 TO SEPTEMBER 1945. HILDA G LACEY, MALAYAN NURSING SERVICE Signatures -see description

Object Details

Category: Souvenirs and ephemera
Related period: Second World War (association)
Materials: whole: linen
Dimensions: whole: L: 240cm W:160 cm
Catalogue number: EPH 4566

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Lacey, Hilda Grace
Associated events

Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment
Associated items

Private Papers of Miss M Thomas
Associated places

Changi, Singapore, Federation of Malaya

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