Wilhelmina Tempest obituary

My stepmother, Wilhelmina Tempest, who has died aged 94, was one of the last survivors of wartime Japanese internment camps. She then retrained as a nurse, going to Britain to pursue an interest in burn injuries and plastic surgery.Her grandfather was a Dutch protestant missionary in West Papua. When the second world war reached Sumatra (then a Dutch colony) in 1942, her father, Willem van Hasselt, was the headteacher of a bush school. Conscripted into the Dutch army, within three weeks he was c