Harold Batten and family at Singapore and Camp Batu Lintang, Sarawak, Borneo
Grandfather Harold Cecil Lenan Brosnan Batten, born 1900 in Singapore: About 1941, my grandfather was working on a ship called Ban Han Leong. Prior to this, he had been working in the marine salvage industry, and previous to that, he worked for Singapore Dock Company. He was the Second Mate (tbc) on the ship. It was part of an auxiliary patrol when it suffered a bombing attack in Penang in 1941. It was repaired and in February 1942, there is a sailing record that it was carrying troops and civilians, in the company of the ship Sin Hik Lee. It sailed on 7 February and safely arrived at Tanjon P... Mehr ...
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Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25934866.v1 |