Lot 4175

Description

Trio to Nurse Killed in Ship Sinking: 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45. Olga Stringer. All medals engraved. Swing mounted, good very fine.

Olga Stringer was a VAD nurse, the wife of Colonel C.H.Stringer, later Brigadier Stringer CBE, DSO, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Olga Stringer was tragically killed when the S.S. Tandjong Pinang was sunk by a Japanese submarine or torpedo boat during the evening of 17 February 1942. The Tanjong Pinang was carrying mostly survivors off Pom Pong Island in the Indonesian Archipelago who had previously been shipwrecked when the Singapore evacuation ship, S.S. Kuala, was sunk by Japanese bombers.

Nurse Olga Stringer died 17 February 1942 at the age of 50 and is commemorated at S.S. Tandjong Pinang, civilian war dead.

With research including a reconstructed passenger list for the S.S. Tandjong Pinang including information for each passenger.