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Wendy Grey Rogerson was born in Newcastle and brought up in Northumberland. She trained as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital, London, and returned to Newcastle where she worked as a midwife, district nurse and health visitor before going to Borneo. She and her husband, an Anglican priest, have two daughters. Over the years Wendy has been an active member of the Mothers Union, for which her many roles include Durham diocesan president and volunteering in Durhams mens and womens prisons where she gave individual bereavement care. She was the womens task group leader for the North-East region for Billy Grahams 1984 Mission England. She has been a member of the Newcastle and Durham diocesan USPG committee and a volunteer for the Samaritans, and is a Lady Freeman of Newcastle upon Tyne. She lives in Durham.

Barbara Fox was born in Newcastle and grew up in the city and in Ashington, Northumberland. She is the author of the books Bedpans & Bobby Socks (2011), Is the Vicar In, Pet? (2014) and When the War Is Over (2016), is co-author, with shepherdess Emma Gray, of One Girl and Her Dogs (2012) and editor of the wartime diaries, Eves War (2017). All of these are published by Little, Brown. She is married and has two sons. She lives in Crawley, West Sussex.

Wendy as a staff nurse at Charing Cross Hospital, London, 1951

First published in Great Britain in 2018

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Contents

Photographs

Historical background

Borneo, the third largest island in the world, lies on the equator in south-east Asia, roughly midway in a line between the southern coast of China and the north coast of Australia.

From the late 1800s until just after the Second World War, the state of North Borneo along with Sarawak and Brunei was a British protectorate, its main attraction lying in the timber resources in its vast rainforest interior. During the war, it was invaded by the Japanese and most of its towns were heavily bombed, Sandakan being so badly damaged that it lost its status as the capital of North Borneo, the administration shifting to Jesselton (today renamed Kota Kinabalu).

When Wendy arrived in 1959, North Borneo and Sarawak had become British colonies, each headed by a governor. The land was divided into residencies and sub-divided into districts, which were run by district officers. These colonial administrators all crop up throughout Wendys tale.

North Borneo at the time of Wendys mission

In the year following Wendys 1962 departure, North Borneo (now named Sabah) and Sarawak became part of the new independent country of Malaysia, its other eleven states lying to the west on the Malay peninsula. Between them, Sabah and Sarawak cover about a quarter of the land area of Borneo; the rest of the island is shared with a constituent part of Indonesia and the tiny but oil- and gas-rich sovereign state of Brunei, which takes up about 1 per cent of the island.

The Dusun people to whom Wendy ministered in the interior are today known as Kadazan-Dusun, owing to similarities between the two ethnic groups, and form the largest ethnic group in Sabah.

The currency used at the time of Wendys stay was the Malaya and British North Borneo dollar. One British pound was the equivalent of 8.57 dollars (60 Malaya dollars to seven British pounds).

The word jungle, which was in common use when Wendy was in Borneo, is held by some today to be pejorative. Although the word rainforest is more commonly used today, it does not accurately describe the low-lying, thick vegetation that made navigation through it so difficult on Wendys expeditions, and so the word jungle is used in the text, as Wendy used it in her diaries.

Main characters

Some names have been changed.

Barbara Beaumont	Teacher at St Monicas School, Sandakan
Father Briggs	Anglican priest, Sandakan and Jesselton
John Brummell	Australian principal of St Michaels Secondary School, Sandakan
John Burder	Forestry officer
Father Burn	Rector of All Saints Church, Jesselton
Dr Cameron	Doctor, Sandakan
Dr Christiansen	Doctor, Sandakan and Jesselton
Sister Christina	Leader of convent CJGS, Sandakan
Dr Clapham	Doctor, Jesselton
Nigel Cornwall	Bishop of Borneo (194962)
Dalila	Medicine woman, Tongud
David	Pupil, Tongud
Jean Durrant	Australian teacher at St Monicas School, Sandakan
Ederiss	Former pupil, now assistant teacher, Tongud
David Fielding	District Officer (colonial government post), Tambunan
Sister Florence	Principal of St Monicas School, Sandakan
Dr Fozdar	Surgeon, Jesselton and Sandakan
Dr Galea	Doctor, Sandakan
Gay	American Peace Corps volunteer

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