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Photos from Stan’s Album
1942/02/13, 4.20pm - Keppel Harbour
“We got out very smartly”
“We got on boats and went down the coast? I don't know if you know the geography at all, but if you imagine Singapore there and the layer up there, Sumatra is down here, and it's like a long sausage, the Sumatra, then a gap. And then Java we went, we got onto boats and got across to, uh, Sumatra and went all the way down to the bottom of Sumatra. We then had to get on a boat to get to Java. That would have been our next move, because we were aiming for Australia. But unfortunately, um, the boat we got on got sunk. Wish we found ourselves in the middle of a Jap convoy Believe it or not we were sailing along in the dark”
After the ship was sunk they were marooned on the Island Puluu Pon Pon, near the blue mark on the map.
“They say a picture speaks a thousand words”
(Stan’s photos also described in his own words)
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“On the Island Puluu Pon Pon - a party go out to search for food€¯”
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“Puline Pon-Pon The Hospital - wounded waiting for a boat”
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“Puluu Pon-Pon Queuing for the latrine. There was little privacy but the men were unremarkably intimate to the woman”
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“Straits of Johore, and the Chinese junk boat”
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“The hold of the junk in which we left P.P (Puluu Pon Pon where we were for 9 days)”
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“Kuala Raja. Sinkep Island A beautiful isle but an unholy odour”
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“Priji Raja northern bank of Indragiri river”
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From the Indragiri River they travelled across Sumatra to Padang
(Map supplied by Kevin Snowdon)
Escaping from Singapore, Padang was an exit route for those trying to avoid capture and catch an escape ship. All the ships had left and Stan was captured in Sumatra 17th March 1942.
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