First they walked to Ayer Penchis it was a long and hot journey. They should walk to Kuala Lumpur from there they should be able to go by train to Singapore. After thirty-five days the first child died.Īt the end of six weeks the captain of the Japanese told the women and children that they had to go to Singapore to go to an prison-camp, because in the meanwhile the Japanese had captured that town also. Therefore, diseases like dysentery and malaria attacked them. The circumstances were very bad the food was not good and they had to sleep on the ground without any blanket. The men had to go to a prison camp, so only women and children were left in the accounts office. They had to stay under the veranda of the accounts office. They tried to escape first by car and later by boat, but it did not work out: they were too late, and the Japanese made them prisoners, together with about sixty other peoples. Jean did not do that, but went to her friends: the family Holland, to help them to make the journey south. Because of the risk to be taken as prisoners, the English people in Kuala Lumpur took refuge. When she was nineteen years old, she went back to Malaya to work as a shorthand typist and live in Kuala Lumpur. She went back to England to go to school. Jean was born in Malaya 1921, but her parents were English. Plot: Outline of the most important events put in the chronological sequence.
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