How great thine aunt : the life and times of missionary sisters: Margaret Sandeman Davies MA DipEd Principal of Ilsin Girls' School Korea & Ellice Jean Davies MB BS Surgeon at Chinju, Maralinga, Pukatja & Port Vila / John Thompson-Gray.

Collection type	Library
Author	Thompson-Gray, John, 1942-, author.;
Call Number	266.0092 T473h
Document type	Monograph
Year	2018. 018.
Pagination	vii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, 1 facsimile ; 20 cm.
Publisher	John Thompson-Gray,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index. This is the untold story of Margaret and Jean Davies and their uncompromising faith, amazing courage and endless endurance. Margaret was called to Korea as an educator from 1910 to 1940. During the Mansei Uprising, Japanese police arrested her for inciting to riot and drove Kim Il-Sung into Manchuria where he founded Korean Communism. Jean gave up a promising career in surgery at the Women's Hospital in Melbourne to practise at a mission hospital in Chinju, Korea. Sent home as a foreign alien before the a ttack on Pearl Harbor she practised at outback mission stations in Australia, doubling as the Flying Doctor. She medically examined the population of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) as a first step to rid the country of leprosy. Jean returned to Pukatja in Sou th Australia during British nuclear bomb testing at Maralinga. -- Back cover.
Place made	Aspley [Queensland] :

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