Adventure-Packed Life
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 14. Few women have packed so much adventure into their lives as Mrs. Pat Shiel, Singapore, who reached Wellington by the Monowai today from Sydney to be welcomed by her sister, the wife of Captain Charles Upham, V.C., and bar. Mrs. Shiel was married in Dunedin in 1937 and accompanied to Malaya her husband, who was engulfed without trace in the Japanese invasion. As a Red Cross worker, Mrs. Shiel was rescued from Singapore at the last moment by the Navy and sent ashore at Colombo. From there she went through Africa to Britain and subsequently was in Germany, Austria and Trieste. Specialising in blood transfusion, Mrs. Shiel, who wears the uniform of an officer of the British Red Cross, is at present attached to a Red Cross hostel in Singapore and is visiting New Zealand on furlough. She travelled from Singapore to Adelaide in an R.A.F. bomber and to Sydney in an R.A.A.F. machine. She will return from Australia to Singapore by air. Mrs. Shiel intends to spend lier leave with her sister on Captain Upham’s farm in North Canterbury.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22972, 15 June 1949, Page 8
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