Description
Object description
Photocopy of an incomplete, anecdotal and confused ts memoir (36pp), written in 1985 - 1986, describing his service in the RAF from 1937, his posting as a Leading Aircraftman to HQ 51 Wing RAF intelligence group in France from autumn 1939 till his evacuation from Dunkirk in May 1940, his passage out to Malaya (December 1940 - March 1941) and service in Singapore during the fighting (December 1941 - February 1942), his evacuation in the KUALA and her sinking in the Bangka Straits (February 1942), his capture in Sumatra, (?) escape by small boat, recapture in Java and return to a prisoner of war camp in Palembang, Sumatra (February - March 1942), his life in the camp and on local working parties, their liberation (August 1945) and repatriation (September - October 1945) and his re-enlistment in the RAF in the 1950s.
Content description
Photocopy of an incomplete, anecdotal and confused ts memoir (36pp), written in 1985 - 1986, describing his service in the RAF from 1937, his posting as a Leading Aircraftman to HQ 51 Wing RAF intelligence group in France from autumn 1939 till his evacuation from Dunkirk in May 1940, his passage out to Malaya (December 1940 - March 1941) and service in Singapore during the fighting (December 1941 - February 1942), his evacuation in the KUALA and her sinking in the Bangka Straits (February 1942), his capture in Sumatra, (?) escape by small boat, recapture in Java and return to a prisoner of war camp in Palembang, Sumatra (February - March 1942), his life in the camp and on local working parties, their liberation (August 1945) and repatriation (September - October 1945) and his re-enlistment in the RAF in the 1950s.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1993-12