PASTOR EDWIN MALCOLM ABBOT - MISSION SUPERENTENDENT
RABAUL NEW BRITAIN AGED 33.
Malcolm Edwin Abbot was the superintendent of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in New Guinea when he was taken as a civilian internee during World War II in Rabaul, New Guinea, and subsequently lost his life at the age of 33. His wife, Una Frances "Fran" Sprengel, served at the Sydney Adventist Hospital from 1944 until 1971.
Malcolm Abbott was born in Waverly, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on January 12, 1909. He was born into a Seventh-day Adventist home. Una Frances ("Frances" or "Fran"), the daughter of John Albert and Sarah Sprengel, was born in Boonah, Queensland, on November 1, 1906. Her family had moved to Avondale so that the children could attend the Australasian Missionary College and had purchased the property and home previously owned by W. C. White opposite "Sunnyside," the home of Ellen G. White.
Abbot graduated from the three-year business course at the Australasian Missionary College and accepted an appointment as clerk in the Sanitarium Health Food Company. He also spent some time in the Australasian Union Conference office and was later appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Missionary College as accountant and preceptor.6 While in New Zealand, he married Una Frances Sprengel on August 6, 1935, in the Edendale, Auckland Church. Una Frances had graduated from the nursing course at Sydney Sanitarium.
Abbott spent three years in educational work at the New Zealand Missionary College followed by some years of clerical work for various church entities before his ordination in September 1939. That same month he accepted an appointment as the superintendent of the New Guinea Mission.
In December 1941, the Seventh-day Adventist missionary family dependents in Papua New Guinea were evacuated to Australia, and within seven months the Japanese navy had pushed back the Australian army and taken over the town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain and established a base from which the invasion of the Solomon Islands and mainland Papua New Guinea could be launched.
Malcolm Abbott had delayed his vacation to Australia so that the field would not be depleted of expatriate leadership during Pastor and Mrs. Tutty's holidays. Abbott remained in Papua New Guinea at a location where he was in easy reach of the invading Japanese forces, and he was soon captured by the occupying Japanese forces.
Abbott, along with another 1,052 men, was packed onto the Montevideo Maru for transportation to Hainan Island, leaving Rabaul on June 22, 1942. Aboard this prison ship were some 845 servicemen and 208 civilians.
RABAUL NEW BRITAIN AGED 33.
Malcolm Edwin Abbot was the superintendent of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in New Guinea when he was taken as a civilian internee during World War II in Rabaul, New Guinea, and subsequently lost his life at the age of 33. His wife, Una Frances "Fran" Sprengel, served at the Sydney Adventist Hospital from 1944 until 1971.
Malcolm Abbott was born in Waverly, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on January 12, 1909. He was born into a Seventh-day Adventist home. Una Frances ("Frances" or "Fran"), the daughter of John Albert and Sarah Sprengel, was born in Boonah, Queensland, on November 1, 1906. Her family had moved to Avondale so that the children could attend the Australasian Missionary College and had purchased the property and home previously owned by W. C. White opposite "Sunnyside," the home of Ellen G. White.
Abbot graduated from the three-year business course at the Australasian Missionary College and accepted an appointment as clerk in the Sanitarium Health Food Company. He also spent some time in the Australasian Union Conference office and was later appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Missionary College as accountant and preceptor.6 While in New Zealand, he married Una Frances Sprengel on August 6, 1935, in the Edendale, Auckland Church. Una Frances had graduated from the nursing course at Sydney Sanitarium.
Abbott spent three years in educational work at the New Zealand Missionary College followed by some years of clerical work for various church entities before his ordination in September 1939. That same month he accepted an appointment as the superintendent of the New Guinea Mission.
In December 1941, the Seventh-day Adventist missionary family dependents in Papua New Guinea were evacuated to Australia, and within seven months the Japanese navy had pushed back the Australian army and taken over the town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain and established a base from which the invasion of the Solomon Islands and mainland Papua New Guinea could be launched.
Malcolm Abbott had delayed his vacation to Australia so that the field would not be depleted of expatriate leadership during Pastor and Mrs. Tutty's holidays. Abbott remained in Papua New Guinea at a location where he was in easy reach of the invading Japanese forces, and he was soon captured by the occupying Japanese forces.
Abbott, along with another 1,052 men, was packed onto the Montevideo Maru for transportation to Hainan Island, leaving Rabaul on June 22, 1942. Aboard this prison ship were some 845 servicemen and 208 civilians.
PASTOR EDWIN MALCOLM ABBOT - MISSION SUPERENTENDENT
RABAUL NEW BRITAIN AGED 33.
Malcolm Edwin Abbot was the superintendent of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in New Guinea when he was taken as a civilian internee during World War II in Rabaul, New Guinea, and subsequently lost his life at the age of 33. His wife, Una Frances "Fran" Sprengel, served at the Sydney Adventist Hospital from 1944 until 1971.
Malcolm Abbott was born in Waverly, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on January 12, 1909. He was born into a Seventh-day Adventist home. Una Frances ("Frances" or "Fran"), the daughter of John Albert and Sarah Sprengel, was born in Boonah, Queensland, on November 1, 1906. Her family had moved to Avondale so that the children could attend the Australasian Missionary College and had purchased the property and home previously owned by W. C. White opposite "Sunnyside," the home of Ellen G. White.
Abbot graduated from the three-year business course at the Australasian Missionary College and accepted an appointment as clerk in the Sanitarium Health Food Company. He also spent some time in the Australasian Union Conference office and was later appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Missionary College as accountant and preceptor.6 While in New Zealand, he married Una Frances Sprengel on August 6, 1935, in the Edendale, Auckland Church. Una Frances had graduated from the nursing course at Sydney Sanitarium.
Abbott spent three years in educational work at the New Zealand Missionary College followed by some years of clerical work for various church entities before his ordination in September 1939. That same month he accepted an appointment as the superintendent of the New Guinea Mission.
In December 1941, the Seventh-day Adventist missionary family dependents in Papua New Guinea were evacuated to Australia, and within seven months the Japanese navy had pushed back the Australian army and taken over the town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain and established a base from which the invasion of the Solomon Islands and mainland Papua New Guinea could be launched.
Malcolm Abbott had delayed his vacation to Australia so that the field would not be depleted of expatriate leadership during Pastor and Mrs. Tutty's holidays. Abbott remained in Papua New Guinea at a location where he was in easy reach of the invading Japanese forces, and he was soon captured by the occupying Japanese forces.
Abbott, along with another 1,052 men, was packed onto the Montevideo Maru for transportation to Hainan Island, leaving Rabaul on June 22, 1942. Aboard this prison ship were some 845 servicemen and 208 civilians.
RABAUL NEW BRITAIN AGED 33.
Malcolm Edwin Abbot was the superintendent of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in New Guinea when he was taken as a civilian internee during World War II in Rabaul, New Guinea, and subsequently lost his life at the age of 33. His wife, Una Frances "Fran" Sprengel, served at the Sydney Adventist Hospital from 1944 until 1971.
Malcolm Abbott was born in Waverly, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on January 12, 1909. He was born into a Seventh-day Adventist home. Una Frances ("Frances" or "Fran"), the daughter of John Albert and Sarah Sprengel, was born in Boonah, Queensland, on November 1, 1906. Her family had moved to Avondale so that the children could attend the Australasian Missionary College and had purchased the property and home previously owned by W. C. White opposite "Sunnyside," the home of Ellen G. White.
Abbot graduated from the three-year business course at the Australasian Missionary College and accepted an appointment as clerk in the Sanitarium Health Food Company. He also spent some time in the Australasian Union Conference office and was later appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Missionary College as accountant and preceptor.6 While in New Zealand, he married Una Frances Sprengel on August 6, 1935, in the Edendale, Auckland Church. Una Frances had graduated from the nursing course at Sydney Sanitarium.
Abbott spent three years in educational work at the New Zealand Missionary College followed by some years of clerical work for various church entities before his ordination in September 1939. That same month he accepted an appointment as the superintendent of the New Guinea Mission.
In December 1941, the Seventh-day Adventist missionary family dependents in Papua New Guinea were evacuated to Australia, and within seven months the Japanese navy had pushed back the Australian army and taken over the town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain and established a base from which the invasion of the Solomon Islands and mainland Papua New Guinea could be launched.
Malcolm Abbott had delayed his vacation to Australia so that the field would not be depleted of expatriate leadership during Pastor and Mrs. Tutty's holidays. Abbott remained in Papua New Guinea at a location where he was in easy reach of the invading Japanese forces, and he was soon captured by the occupying Japanese forces.
Abbott, along with another 1,052 men, was packed onto the Montevideo Maru for transportation to Hainan Island, leaving Rabaul on June 22, 1942. Aboard this prison ship were some 845 servicemen and 208 civilians.
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Was under transport from Rabaul on the prisoner ship Montevideo Maru, when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine Sturgeon (SS-187).
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