PETALING JAYA: The Google search engine on Saturday featured a doodle commemorating the 117th birthday anniversary of Sybil Kathigasu, a Malayan-Eurasian nurse who supported the resistance movement during the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
The only Malayan woman to be awarded the George Medal for bravery, Kathigasu is credited together with her husband Dr Abdon Clement Kathigasu of secretly supplying medicines and medical services to the resistance forces until their arrest in 1943.
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