A Child Prisoner of War: The Story of Thomas Ryan - Singapore 1942-45 - Paperback

by Christopher Terence Ryan (Author)

An account of my father, Thomas Ryan's experiences as a young teenage seaman with Canadian Pacific ships during WW2; his being sunk in the Atlantic by a German bomber; rescued by the Royal Navy's HMS Tatar; then sunk again off Singapore by the Japanese on troopship RMS Empress of Asia and his subsequent time as a POW in Changi and Sime Road camps until the war ended. His return to education in the secret prison camp school, his working in the camp hospital, and the awakening of a desire to study medicine. HIs post-war enrolment in Liverpool University and subsequent qualification as a medical practitioner.