Description
Object description
Photocopies of a ts transcription of a detailed diary (129pp) covering the period (with some gaps) January 1942 - July 1943, then April - September 1945, secretly written by a Lieutenant, later Captain, Surveyor of Works, Royal Engineers, recording his personal experiences and observations in the period leading up to the fall of Singapore in 1942 and during his period of captivity as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Changi camp, Singapore (February - August 1942), moving in the HENO MARU to Haito camp, Formosa, Taiwan (August - November 1942), being moved in DAI NICIAT MARU to Detachment No 1, Tokyo Camp, Yokohama, Japan (November 1942 - May 1945), with a stay in Shinagawa Hospital Camp (August - October 1943), and hospital at Kamanishi (July - September 1944), and then a move to Kosaka, Northern Japan (May - September 1945), before his liberation by American troops, with throughout details of fellow prisoners, Japanese treatment, lack of food and medicines, duties, illnesses, and descriptions of the camps. Together with photocopies of two sketches of camps.
Content description
Photocopies of a ts transcription of a detailed diary (129pp) covering the period (with some gaps) January 1942 - July 1943, then April - September 1945, secretly written by a Lieutenant, later Captain, Surveyor of Works, Royal Engineers, recording his personal experiences and observations in the period leading up to the fall of Singapore in 1942 and during his period of captivity as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Changi camp, Singapore (February - August 1942), moving in the HENO MARU to Haito camp, Formosa, Taiwan (August - November 1942), being moved in DAI NICIAT MARU to Detachment No 1, Tokyo Camp, Yokohama, Japan (November 1942 - May 1945), with a stay in Shinagawa Hospital Camp (August - October 1943), and hospital at Kamanishi (July - September 1944), and then a move to Kosaka, Northern Japan (May - September 1945), before his liberation by American troops, with throughout details of fellow prisoners, Japanese treatment, lack of food and medicines, duties, illnesses, and descriptions of the camps. Together with photocopies of two sketches of camps.
History note
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