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Kathigasu in
Pekeliling, Kuala Lumpur, on 26 February 1921. The earlier sudden death of baby Michael made Olga a very special baby to Kathigasu, when she was born without problems. So when Kathigasu returned to Ipoh on 7 April 1921, it was not only with Olga, but also with William and her mother who had agreed to stay in Ipoh with the family. A second daughter, Dawn, was born in Ipoh on 21 September 1936.
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Kathigasu's first child was a son born on 26 August 1919, but due to major problems at birth, died after only 19 hours. He was named
Michael after Kathigasu's elder brother, who was born in Taiping on 12 November 1892 and later joined the British Army, and was killed in action on 10 July 1915 while
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The devastating blow of baby
Michael's death led to Kathigasu's mother suggesting that a young boy, William Pillay, born 25 October 1918, who she had delivered and had remained staying with them at their Pudu house, should be adopted by Kathigasu and her husband. Then a daughter, Olga, was born to
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origin. Initially there had been objection from her parents due to their religious differences: him being a Hindu while
Kathigasu was a Catholic. However, with agreement from his father, he became a Catholic and was renamed as Abdon Clement Kathigasu. Their wedding took place in St. John's Church
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broadcasts. As she was able to speak fluent
Cantonese, Kathigasu and her husband were able to quietly supply medicines, medical services and information to the resistance forces - members of 5th Independent Regiment Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA).
404:. Kathigasu had to endure water torture, where water was forced down a victim's throat and Japanese soldiers would later step on the bloated stomach. Kathigasu also had to endure watching her husband and children getting tortured in front of her.
288:(thus reflected in her middle name). Her paternal grandparents were an Irishman and a Eurasian woman while her maternal grandparents were a Frenchman named Pierre Louis Martin and a Eurasian woman named Adeline Regina Martin
481:(Neville Spearman, 1954; reprinted Oxford University Press, 1983 and Prometheus Enterprises, 2006) : This autobiography was completed in 1948. However, it was only published in 1954 by Neville Spearman in the
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jail in Feb 1945. Kathigasu's husband was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment while she received a life sentence. After Malaya was liberated from the
Japanese in August 1945, Kathigasu was flown to
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Despite being interrogated and tortured by the
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Beatrice Matilda Daly (née Martin), a French-Eurasian midwife, on 3 September 1899 in Medan, Sumatra,
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She and her husband, Dr. Kathigasu, operated a clinic at No. 141, Brewster Road (now Jalan Sultan Idris Shah) in
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In 2010, a ten-part miniseries drama based on her life was produced by
Malaysian satellite television company
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de Murat. She was the fifth child and the only girl. She was trained as a nurse and midwife and spoke
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Faces of Courage: A Revealing Historical Appreciation of Colonial Malaya's Legendary Kathigasu Family
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cemetery beside St. Michael's Church opposite the Main
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Eurasian nurse who supported the resistance during the
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Olga Kathigasu (26 February 1921 — 6 September 2014)
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