Tricia Gosling writes...read your site with much interest re the evacuations from Singapore. I'd like to see my mother's and my names added to the list of passengers on the FELIX ROUSSEL, 8th Feb? My mothers name was Hetty Giles (aged 19), my name is Patricia Giles (now Gosling). I was 3 months at the time. My father did not survive internment.
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I have set up this site to support my research related to the events and personal stories concerning the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Specifically my interest relates to the evacuation of civilians and military personnel from Keppel harbour where most of the evacuation ships left from in the last days before Singapore capitulated to the Japanese. http://www.twitter.com/singapore1942 You can contact me on davidahope@gmail.com
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The Free French MV Felix Roussel entered Keppel Harbour the morning of 5 February 1942 after the loss of the Empress of Asia. It was bombed and strafed with the 9th Northumberland Fusiliers on board. I age 7 and my family boarded the ship at 5 p.m. 6 February 1942 and departed in darkness. The Japanese Imperial Guards landed at midnight the same evening. The following morning 17 Mitsubishi Betty bombers bombed the ship at Banka Straits and missed. A dark and blue camouflage warship and the MV 'Devonshire' accompanied us. After this, we sailed through the Sunda Straits at night with its search lights seeking out the darkness. By the next morning, there were no sign of the other ships. We saw landfall at Bombay after an uneventful journey across the Bay of Bengal.
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