{"id":3495,"date":"2019-10-24T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=3495"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:24:45","slug":"ismail-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=3495","title":{"rendered":"Ismail Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peggy (Varthoui) Ismail was on board the Giang Bee with her daughter Molly. Both survived the bombing and the sinking. Peggy did not survive her internment and died at Palembang on 17 October 1945, aged 60. Peggy was the daughter of Garabed Hagopian and the wife of Mohammed Ismail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly Ismail was a teacher, daughter of Peggy &amp; Tunku Mohammed Ismail. She was repatriated to the UK on the Sobieski October 1945. Passenger list states \u2018Malayan Nursing Service.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-3-May-1935-P.-4-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-3-May-1935-P.-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-3-May-1935-P.-4-copy.jpg 489w, https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-3-May-1935-P.-4-copy-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-Engaged-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-20-September-1940-Page-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-Engaged-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-20-September-1940-Page-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-Engaged-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-20-September-1940-Page-5-1.jpg 447w, https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Miss-Molly-Ismail-Full-Portrait-Engaged-The-Singapore-Free-Press-and-Mercantile-Advertiser-20-September-1940-Page-5-1-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly recalls the first bomber attack on the Giang Bee in <em>Women Behind The Wire<\/em>: she had been talking to two young Dutch boys just before the bomber attacked and \u201c \u2026when it was over Molly turned to the two boys at her side and found that both their heads had been severed\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy (Varthoui) Ismail was on board the Giang Bee with her daughter Molly. Both survived the bombing and the sinking. Peggy did not survive her internment and died at Palembang on 17 October 1945, aged 60. Peggy was the daughter of Garabed Hagopian and the wife of Mohammed Ismail. Molly Ismail was a teacher, daughter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=3495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ismail Family<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3495\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}