Tracing Family Branches

I am very excited to say that thanks to the University of Cambridge Digital Library (see here ) I have finally found some records pertaining to my husbands Grandfather William Allardyce Martin and his time as a civilian prisoner of war at Changi during World War Two.  William was a prison officer at Changi before the fall of Singapore and while he was captured, he did manage to get his wife and son safely out of Singapore with them ultimately living at Barrow in Furness in England for the duration of the war.  William survived the war and in 1945 arrived in England on the Tegelberg , the stay was not a long one as he returned to Singapore in mid 1946 on the Mauretania .  With his health ultimately compromised from his time as a prisoner of war he died at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore in August 1949 and was buried at Bidadari Cemetery. Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, June, 1942 This record mentions that his wife was Eurasian and was p...