My Tiger Cowrie Shell - the only thing I brought back from Australia in 1942

My Tiger Cowrie Shell. (Pic. 1) (Pic. 2 &3 Kilner Black's 1941 diary) .the only thing I brought back from Australia in 1942. I was born in Kuching, Sarawak on Dec. 24th 1937. So when War was declared against Germany on 3.9.39. my family and I were all living safely in the Far East. My father, Kilner Black, was the chief shipping agent for the Blue Funnel Line in Kuching port. Then the Japanese threatened war too. A unit of the British Army was sent over to help in the defence of independent Sarawak and all women and children were asked to leave. "Does that mean me?" asked my mother, Joan B... Mehr ...