Name: GERINANG ANAK SIBAT.
Address: Kerangan Bungkang, Tapang Nawi, Katibas, Song, Sarawak.
The Story / Episode: In 1943, when he was about 3 years old, he was adopted and taken to New Zealand. He joined the NZ Army and sometime in 1956, while enroute to Singapore and Malaya to join the Commonwealth Forces in fighting the Communist Insurgency, he stopped briefly to see his family in Sarawak. That was the last his family had seen and heard of him.
Is he still alive? If he is dead, where is he buried? That are the painful questions that his family members have been asking for the last 50 odd years.
If anyone have any information, please contact me at +6012 2751171 or email : rizalbob@gmail.com/
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Sarawak was under Japanese Occupation in 1943, so I doubt that the date is correct. If he really did serve in the NZ Army, you might get information here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.army.mil.nz/culture-and-history/personnel-archives/default.htm
Good luck and best wishes to you.
Dear Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I doubt he was adopted in 1943, when the Japs were occupying Sarawak. It has to be before the War. If it was before the War, then it will make sense that he came to Singapore and Malaya with the NZ Army in the mid / late 50s.
I have inquired from an NZ authority and they confirmed there was no person by that name in the NZ Army. He could have taken a different name when he was adopted. Am still awaiting for the answers to some of my querries to the family members.
Perhaps Church records can also be used. Check with the Anglican church in NZ. He probably adopted a Christian name and was baptised after the adoption.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is another avenue to be searched.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestion.