Kathleen THOMPSON [c.1908-2002] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Kathleen THOMPSON [c.1908-2002]

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Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2014-06-25 16:01
Names
Given: 
Kathleen
Family: 
Thompson
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1908-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
New Zealand
Death
Date: 
2002-01-21

After training as a nurse in New Zealand, Kathleen Thompson went to Britain in 1936 and joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. 

In Hong Kong she served as matron of St. Albert's Hospital during the hostilities.

She went to Britain after the war and became Assistant Director of the Army Nursing Sevice (rank: Lieutenant-Colonel). After retirement in the 1960s she returned to New Zealand and died at the age of 94.

Source:

Arthur E. Gomes Newsletter, undated but probably March 2002

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Submitted by Philip on Mon, 2014-06-30 09:59.
She was injured whilst serving as Acting Matron at St Alberts Temporary Hospital in the same shelling in which Miss Brenda Morgan was killed when the Sisters quarters were shelled. Best regards, Philip