View entry
Name: SYKES, Margaret Alder 'Peggy' (Sgt.)
Nee: dau. of Louis Sykes
Birth Date: 25 Sep 1920 Nairobi
Death Date: 13 May 1944 on active service with FANYs in Ceylon
Area: Thomson's Falls
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Phil Sykes, Tom Lawrence
General Information:
Phil Sykes: She was rescued after the sinking of the 'Khedive Ismail' in 1943 [actually 1944] but died soon after of peritonitis, in Colombo -' thanks to an idiot of a Sinhalese doctor.'
Tom Lawrence: I am 99.9% certain that Peggy Sykes was not on the ss Khedive Ismail, as she does not appear on the passenger lists compiled by the meticulous Brian Crabb in his book 'Passage of Destiny'. I suspect she was on the next convoy KR 9 which departed Kilindini on 24th Feb 1944 and arrived in Colombo on 6th March 1944. I am very interested in this convoy as my father was on it.
Tom