Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
After training as a nurse in New Zealand, Kathleen Thompson went to Britain in 1936 and joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
In Hong Kong she served as matron of St. Albert's Hospital during the hostilities.
She went to Britain after the war and became Assistant Director of the Army Nursing Sevice (rank: Lieutenant-Colonel). After retirement in the 1960s she returned to New Zealand and died at the age of 94.
Source:
Arthur E. Gomes Newsletter, undated but probably March 2002
Comments
She was injured whilst
She was injured whilst serving as Acting Matron at St Alberts Temporary Hospital in the same shelling in which Miss Brenda Morgan was killed when the Sisters quarters were shelled. Best regards, Philip
Muriel Kathleen Thompson & Day Joyce Sheet
It is likely her full name was Muriel Kathleen Thompson as noted in: https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9911-thomson-muriel-kathleen/
After the Japanese surrender, she left Stanley Camp on 26 August 1945 to provide nursing services at the Central British School Hospital.
Muriel Kathleen Thompson's name/signature appears as M. K. Thompson under "St. Teresa's Hospital" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30083388. An explanation of the "Day Joyce Sheet" is given at: https://gwulo.com/media/46458