Physical description

Red hard-cover book with a dust-jacket. The dust-jacket shows a grey and white pencil sketch on the front cover and spine of a nurse floating on a raft. The title and author are printed in the centre in black and red text. On the back cover is a black and white photograph of Margot Turner in uniform.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'Janice C.A.McCarthy

Summary

Margot Turner joined Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service in 1937. In 1941 she was sent to Singapore. When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese she managed to escape, she spent four days alone on a raft before being captured as a prisoner of war. She survived three and a half years in the Japanese camp and later went on to become Matron-in-chief and Director of the Army Nursing Service.