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Sybil Medan Kathigasu GM (née Daly; 3 September 1899 – 12 June 1948) was a Malayan Eurasian nurse who supported the resistance during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. She is the only Malayan woman to ever be awarded with the George Medal for bravery.
Jan 4, 2014 · You will not read of her in Malaysian history schoolbooks but she will be remembered in history as a remarkable woman, a trained nurse who together with her husband Dr. Abdon Clement Kathigasu, provided medical treatment to the anti-Japanese forces during World War II.
Jul 14, 2018 · It was from this building that Kathigasu, a Eurasian of Irish-Indian parentage, with her husband Dr Abdon Clement Kathigasu, set up a dispensary during World War II and aided the resistance. The couple initially ran a clinic on 141 Brewster Road (now Jalan Sultan Idris Shah) in Ipoh before moving to Papan following the Japanese Occupation.
Oct 20, 2017 · Sybil Kathigasu and her husband Dr Abdon Clement Kathigasu, Sybil operated a clinic in the small town of Papan Perak, where they covertly supplied medicine, medical services and refuge to resistance fighters for years during World War 2.
Sep 1, 2013 · Sybil and her husband, Dr Abdon Clement Kathigasu, operated a clinic at No. 141 Brewster Road (Jalan Sultan Idris Shah) in Ipoh from 1926 until the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941. Days before Japanese forces occupied Ipoh, the couple moved to Papan.
Sep 11, 2017 · Along with her husband, Abdon Clement Kathigasu, who was a doctor, she ran a clinic in Ipoh from 1926 to December 1942, when the Japanese troops first arrived in Malaya. The couple, along with their three kids, then fled to Papan in Perak where they secretly provided the resistance forces with medical treatment and supplies.
Beliau berkahwin dengan Dr. Abdon Clement Kathigasu, seorang doktor berketurunan India Malaysia dari suku bangsa Tamil Ceylon (pada masa kini suku Tamil Sri Lanka) pada 7 Januari 1919 di Gereja St John, Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur.
