Private Papers of Flying Officer J Skinner

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Signed ts letter (1p, 16 September 1945) from Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, to Flying Officer Jeffrey Skinner, praising him for his achievements and bravery [operating a secret radio] as a prisoner of war in Changi camp, Singapore during the Second World War; also copy of the magazine ILLUSTRATED (20 October 1945) and a printed extract (3pp) from another magazine illustrating prisoner of war life in Changi, the operation of a secret radio and re-printing part of Russell Braddon's THE NAKED ISLAND; cyclostyled copy of an account (1p, 24 August 1945) of the operation of radios in camp; cyclostyled copy of a magazine entitled CHANGI SINBUN (28 August 1945) giving contemporary world and camp news.

History note

Cataloguer PHR

History note

Catalogue date 1990-08

Object details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Skinner, Jeffrey
Production date: 1945
Dimensions: File: Weight 3.8 kg
Catalogue number: Documents.1148

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