School holidays 1938

I am trying to finish a photo book of my husband's side of the family. My M in Law has had the most amazing life, mostly good, but as a child not so good. In a nutshell, she has lived in Sri Lanka, South Africa,  India, and Singapore. Her father worked for the National Bank of India in all these countries, some moves were due to the second world war. Her first school was in Singapore but later she was sent to boarding school in the UK and occasionally was able to go for a holiday to where her parents were at the time, by boat all alone. This is the Embarkment record of her leaving UK from Liverpool in 1938 (when she was 11years old  ) on a ship sailing to Rangoon in what was Burma. She disembarked in Colombo, in what was Ceylon. 5 weeks later she had to come back again. She remembers this well.
She is now 92 and has dementia, but increasingly over the years hates people leaving her and is getting worse. I can really understand where it has come from. She felt abandoned at school and at one point during the war she stayed in the school for two whole years with no holidays as it was unsafe to sail across to India and there was no one she could stay with here.
It makes me grateful for my life today.

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