Escape from Singapore to Sumatra, Indonesia via Tugboat
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The contributor's father, Cecil William Lamond Prime (known as "Bill"), was a bombardier in World War II who was sent to East Asia to fight against the Japanese. He joined a convoy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and attended a training camp in Mumbai (referred to as Bombay), India. The contributor stated that, once it was understood that the situation was dire, his father was ordered to travel to Singapore with no map and a Fiat motorcycle. He was then secretly selected by officers to escape rather than fight. The contributor noted that orders then changed at the last minute and, along with others, his father had to make his own way out of Singapore. The contributor shared that his father had shot a man in the jungle and kept items from the man. The contributor's father had intended to return these items to the man's family but felt unable to find the family after learning about how prisoners of war were treated by the Japanese. The escapees found a Chinese-owned tugboat and made their way to Sumatra, Indonesia, and this information is evidenced by the "Straits Settlements" document (photographs in the correlated image uploads number 7). The contributor's father had a bullet in his leg for over a month during this escape, and the escapees used tea leaves to make themselves look non-white. The contributor's father, who was 23-24 at the time of these experiences, eventually served on the HMS Tenedos and HMAS Hobart. During much of her husband's time in East Asia, Phyllis Prime, the contributor's mother, believed that she was a widow. The contributor's mother was an Auxiliary Territorial Service physical training instructor. Neither of the contributor's parents spoke much about their experiences of World War II.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.243 | 0.076 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".