Private Papers of G Horton

Photocopy of a ts account (31pp), undated, of his experiences as a prisoner of war in August 1945 in Kinkasaki mining camp, Formosa, together with his undated ts accounts (29pp) of other prisoners' experiences at Shirakawa, Haito and Taihoku camps, Formosa and Kobe, Japan, giving details of Japanese atrocities and brutality, medical conditions and life in naval transports, the experiences of captured Allied native personnel and the work in the mine; also an undated ts transcription (11pp) and notebook containing a ms transcription of a lecture by the commander of 3rd Indian Corps, Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Heath on the Malaya campaign, a cyclostyled copy (2pp) of Lieutenant Colonel E B Holmes' special orders relating to the 'Selarang Incident', a ts list (1p) of prisoners who died in Kinkasaki in 1942 - 1943, a ts transcription (1p) of a Colonel Russell's undated account of the defence and fall of Singapore and miscellaneous papers including poems and commemorative data relating to HMNZHS MAUNGANUI (1945).

Cataloguer PHR

Catalogue date 1988-06