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Object description
Ts memoir (68pp), written in 1993 and giving brief details of how, as a gunner in an FMSVF volunteer light battery, he escaped from Singapore to Sumatra by small boat in February 1942 and was evacuated to Ceylon, his appointment to a commission in the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles in India (August 1942), and secondment to Force 136 for training for infiltration into Malaya and service in the submarine HMS TALLY HO for a patrol when she tried to land a wireless operator in Perak (?1944); and describing more fully his command of a Force 136 operation party, codenamed 'Hebrides', of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which was dropped by parachute into Perak in December 1944, made contact with the local Sakai tribes in northern Malaya, gathered intelligence about the disposition of Japanese forces and occasionally fought skirmishes with them, raised a local guerrilla army (the Steadfast Malay Soldiers), enjoyed uneasy relations with other Communist guerrilla groups and negotiated with the local Japanese commander following the Japanese surrender in August 1945. The memoir, which also gives a useful impression of the hardships and problems of service in the Malayan jungle, is accompanied by a photocopy of a ts memorandum (23pp) prepared by the staff of Force 136 in August 1945 on resistance forces in Malaya at that time.
Content description
Ts memoir (68pp), written in 1993 and giving brief details of how, as a gunner in an FMSVF volunteer light battery, he escaped from Singapore to Sumatra by small boat in February 1942 and was evacuated to Ceylon, his appointment to a commission in the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles in India (August 1942), and secondment to Force 136 for training for infiltration into Malaya and service in the submarine HMS TALLY HO for a patrol when she tried to land a wireless operator in Perak (?1944); and describing more fully his command of a Force 136 operation party, codenamed 'Hebrides', of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which was dropped by parachute into Perak in December 1944, made contact with the local Sakai tribes in northern Malaya, gathered intelligence about the disposition of Japanese forces and occasionally fought skirmishes with them, raised a local guerrilla army (the Steadfast Malay Soldiers), enjoyed uneasy relations with other Communist guerrilla groups and negotiated with the local Japanese commander following the Japanese surrender in August 1945. The memoir, which also gives a useful impression of the hardships and problems of service in the Malayan jungle, is accompanied by a photocopy of a ts memorandum (23pp) prepared by the staff of Force 136 in August 1945 on resistance forces in Malaya at that time.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1994-03