Description
Object description
War diary (4pp, 5 - 18 February 1942) of the 54th Infantry Brigade Group Company Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) (18th Division), in which he served, covering the events prior to the fall of Singapore, together with an important collection of data assembled by him in the form of translations, photocopies, printed articles, charts, maps and photographs, taken from a wide variety of British and Japanese official and private or published sources, concerning the history of the construction of the Burma - Thailand railway (on which he was employed as a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945), especially Futamatsu's 'Across the Three Pagodas Pass', papers concerning the 'V Scheme' for the secret provision of medical help to POWs, a RAPWI nominal roll from Rangoon in October 1945, and personal data sheets and some of his own contemporary ms records on repatriation (which he helped to administer in September - October 1945).
Content description
War diary (4pp, 5 - 18 February 1942) of the 54th Infantry Brigade Group Company Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) (18th Division), in which he served, covering the events prior to the fall of Singapore, together with an important collection of data assembled by him in the form of translations, photocopies, printed articles, charts, maps and photographs, taken from a wide variety of British and Japanese official and private or published sources, concerning the history of the construction of the Burma - Thailand railway (on which he was employed as a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945), especially Futamatsu's 'Across the Three Pagodas Pass', papers concerning the 'V Scheme' for the secret provision of medical help to POWs, a RAPWI nominal roll from Rangoon in October 1945, and personal data sheets and some of his own contemporary ms records on repatriation (which he helped to administer in September - October 1945).
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1993-03