Esmé Osler obituary

My mother, Esmi(C) Osler, who has died aged 92, made Britain her home after spending her youth in Japanese-occupied Singapore.

Born in Miri, Sarawak, in British North Borneo (now part of Malaysia), Esmi(C) was the second of three children of Walter Roberts and Hilda (nee Weston), an Anglo-Indian couple from Madras, India. Walter worked on the oilfields, but when he was made redundant Hilda returned to Madras with the children to live with their grandmother until Walter secured a job in Singapore, where the family then settled.