Description
Object description
Wordprocessed copy (39pp) of a very interesting account probably mainly written in late 1942, and appendices including later correspondence from fellow officers, describing his passage on the cargo ship GLEN BEG from the United Kingdom to Singapore (May - (?) July 1941), his appointment as Naval Liaison Officer at SOE's No 101 Special Training School under Lieutenant Colonel Gavin on Singapore Island and his training in special operations (summer - December 1941), his service during the Malayan campaign, initially assisting in the defence of Penang and then carrying out a programme of demolitions and denials in proximity to Penang and Kuala Lumpur during the Allied retreat to Singapore (December 1941 - January 1942), his involvement in a scheme, based on the SS HIN LEE in northern Sumatra, to evacuate by boat Allied troops cut off behind the Japanese lines in Malaya (February 1942), his journey across to Padang on the west coast of Sumatra at the end of February following the Japanese landings in Sumatra and his voyage, with fifteen other Royal Navy and Army officers, on the native prow SEDERHANA DJOHANIS (8 March - 14 April 1942) across the Indian Ocean during which they encountered very bad weather off the coast of Sumatra, were sighted on several occasions by Japanese aircraft and once attacked and were having difficulty in making landfall in Ceylon after their 1,650 miles voyage before being rescued by the freighter ANGLO-CANADIAN.
Content description
Wordprocessed copy (39pp) of a very interesting account probably mainly written in late 1942, and appendices including later correspondence from fellow officers, describing his passage on the cargo ship GLEN BEG from the United Kingdom to Singapore (May - (?) July 1941), his appointment as Naval Liaison Officer at SOE's No 101 Special Training School under Lieutenant Colonel Gavin on Singapore Island and his training in special operations (summer - December 1941), his service during the Malayan campaign, initially assisting in the defence of Penang and then carrying out a programme of demolitions and denials in proximity to Penang and Kuala Lumpur during the Allied retreat to Singapore (December 1941 - January 1942), his involvement in a scheme, based on the SS HIN LEE in northern Sumatra, to evacuate by boat Allied troops cut off behind the Japanese lines in Malaya (February 1942), his journey across to Padang on the west coast of Sumatra at the end of February following the Japanese landings in Sumatra and his voyage, with fifteen other Royal Navy and Army officers, on the native prow SEDERHANA DJOHANIS (8 March - 14 April 1942) across the Indian Ocean during which they encountered very bad weather off the coast of Sumatra, were sighted on several occasions by Japanese aircraft and once attacked and were having difficulty in making landfall in Ceylon after their 1,650 miles voyage before being rescued by the freighter ANGLO-CANADIAN.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2006-07