Freedom Fighter
Residing at No. 74, Main Street in Papan, Kathigasu secretly kept shortwave radio sets and listened to BBC broadcasts. The family quietly supplied medicines, medical services and information to the resistance forces until they were arrested in 1943.
Despite being interrogated and tortured by the Japanese military police, Sybil persisted in her efforts and was thrown in Batu Gajah jail. After Malaya was liberated in August 1945, Kathigasu was flown to Britain for medical treatment. There, she began writing her memoirs.
Sybil received the George Medal for Gallantry several months before her death in June, 1948.
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Famous quotes containing the words freedom and/or fighter:
“The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.”
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Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
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