- AU PMB MS 1114
- Collectie
- 1936-1942
Thomas Nevison Simpson was born in London on 18 March 1909. In May 1924 (aged 15 years) he came to Adelaide with the last batch of boys under the Barwell Scheme of South Australia. In 1928 he took the local preachers' examination and became a member of the Methodist Church. In 1936 he completed studies at Wesley College in Adelaide and at the University of Sydney. In August 1936 he was sent to the Methodist Mission in Rabaul, New Britain, and then to the Mission at Kavieng in New Ireland where he was Assistant Minister. In December 1936 he was sent as the first Methodist Missionary to New Hanover where he was stationed at Ranmelek. Nellie Sudlow and Tom Simpson were married in Rabaul in September 1937. Nellie and their daughter, Margaret, were evacuated from Kavieng in December 1941, but Tom Simpson stayed on at Ranmelek where he was captured by the Japanese. The last communication from Tom Simpson was dated 5 January 1942. Nellie Simpson died in July 1992.
Correspondence from Tom Simpson to Nellie Ludlow and from Tom and Nellie to her family, together with press cuttings and related documents, 1936-1942, arranged and summarised by their daughter, Margaret Henderson. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>
Simpson, Thomas Nevison