She married a rubber planter named Alexander Thomson and went to live on Carey Island in what was then British Malaya.
[1] She was working as a doctor in Singapore when the city fell to the Japanese army in February 1942.
The guards stole the Red Cross parcels and she saw her fellow inmates die.
However, due to the unrest in the country, they returned to Scotland and bought a farm.
The BBC consulted Thomson for the television series Tenko which portrayed life in Japanese work camps.