Getting a Grip with Jean Lindsay 'Getting a Grip' with Julian Leeser MP

Jean is my wife’s grandmother and she has an incredible story, having been separated from her family at the age of 14 after her mother was taken prisoner of war in Hong Kong.“Come 1940, when the Japanese bombed Hawaii and the war was on the Pacific, they said ‘Out’… and I don’t think we really knew where we were going, we just knew we were going out and within 36 hours every woman and child had to go.”Jean heard little from her mother during the war years, when her mother had been taken priso...