Very glad your father came home, B1. Quite a moving story. I shall breathe a deep breath.
A Portuguese lady nurse I knew in London told me she had been to the gates of Changi Prison to say goodbye as all the remaining Westerners were being rounded up and herded inside, and despite loud protests from her about 'neutrality' etc., the guards grabbed here and pushed her inside too, where she spent the rest of the war.