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Object description
Papers (circa 629pp) relating largely to his experiences as a prisoner of war in Jesselton, Kuching and Sandakan camps in Borneo and Java where he was captured while serving as a Subaltern with 49 Battery, 48th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery including: 17 postcards and 15 ms letters to him (December 1941 - July 1944), 2 ms letters to his sister (January - February 1942), 2 ms letters (June and September 1940, as a gunner, 59th and 96th Light Anti Aircraft Battery RA, describing German air attacks over Essex) and one ts letter (September 1945, describing his circumstances after release); ts report (4pp, 29 November 1944) of POW conditions in Thailand, based on the experiences of two POWs rescued from a sunken Japanese transport; book of ms notes and 4 loose ms pages about pastimes as a POW; folder of aerial leaflets dropped over the camps in 1945; folder of his own excellent drawings of scenes in camps and after liberation; miscellaneous items including cyclostyled ts instructions for returning prisoners of war.
Content description
Papers (circa 629pp) relating largely to his experiences as a prisoner of war in Jesselton, Kuching and Sandakan camps in Borneo and Java where he was captured while serving as a Subaltern with 49 Battery, 48th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery including: 17 postcards and 15 ms letters to him (December 1941 - July 1944), 2 ms letters to his sister (January - February 1942), 2 ms letters (June and September 1940, as a gunner, 59th and 96th Light Anti Aircraft Battery RA, describing German air attacks over Essex) and one ts letter (September 1945, describing his circumstances after release); ts report (4pp, 29 November 1944) of POW conditions in Thailand, based on the experiences of two POWs rescued from a sunken Japanese transport; book of ms notes and 4 loose ms pages about pastimes as a POW; folder of aerial leaflets dropped over the camps in 1945; folder of his own excellent drawings of scenes in camps and after liberation; miscellaneous items including cyclostyled ts instructions for returning prisoners of war.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1990-03