. . . . . . . . . . #soldiersurgeoninmalaya #thomashamilton #military #worldwartwo #radjibeach #vynerbrooke #prisonerofwar #POW #thingsthatmadeanimpression . . . Thomas Hamilton was born in Scotland on 30 March 1899, and died on 5 July 1990, aged 91 years. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Army Medical Corps, as Commanding Officer of the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station. He saw active service in Malaya at the commencement of hostilities against Japan in early 1942, until the capitulation of the allied forces in Singapore, remaining a prisoner of the Japanese until the end of the war. Sister Shirley Gardam was born in Tasmania on 24 August 1910, and died as a prisoner of war on 4 April 1945, aged 34 years. She had escaped from Singapore aboard the S.S. Vyner Brooke, which was attacked and sunk. Of the 65 Australian servicewomen on board, 12 were killed during the air attack or drowned following the sinking, 21 were murdered on Radji Beach, and 32 became internees, 8 of whom subsequently died before the end of the war.