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Escape to Japanese Captivity : A Couple's Tragic Ordeal in Sumatra, 1942–1945 by Cyril Oswald Jennings; Margery Jennings is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Mick and Margery Jenning's comfortable life in Singapore ended with the Japanese invasion in late 1941. Margery was captured in Sumatra after HMV Mata Hari, the ship taking her and other families to safety in Australia, was bombed. Mick left Singapore after the surrender in February 1942 when he and other soldiers commandeered a junk and sailed to Sumatra. After crossing the island, he and Bombardier Jackson set sail for Australia in a seventeen-foot dinghy. After an appalling ordeal at sea he t
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- Author
- Cyril Oswald Jennings; Margery Jennings
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword Military
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526783097
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Memoir, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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