Description
Object description
Photocopy of an account (114pp ts) of his experiences during and after the Second World War, consisting mainly of transcriptions of his diary for the period January 1945 - March 1946, interspersed with explanatory quotations from published sources and a retrospective narrative, covering his experiences as a Company Intelligence Officer with the 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment (89th Indian Infantry Brigade, 7th Indian Division) during the campaign in Burma, January - August 1945 (crossing of the Irrawaddy and Battle of the Sittang Bend), with interesting observations on fighting conditions, the qualities of the opposing Japanese forces, and encounters with troops of the Indian National Army, the battalion's post-surrender duties in Siam policing merchant shipping and in Malaya overseeing the reconstruction of a rubber plantation, and Farrow's experiences in Malaya and Pakistan on staff duties, with brief comments on the civil unrest in the latter country during the period prior to partition.
Content description
Photocopy of an account (114pp ts) of his experiences during and after the Second World War, consisting mainly of transcriptions of his diary for the period January 1945 - March 1946, interspersed with explanatory quotations from published sources and a retrospective narrative, covering his experiences as a Company Intelligence Officer with the 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment (89th Indian Infantry Brigade, 7th Indian Division) during the campaign in Burma, January - August 1945 (crossing of the Irrawaddy and Battle of the Sittang Bend), with interesting observations on fighting conditions, the qualities of the opposing Japanese forces, and encounters with troops of the Indian National Army, the battalion's post-surrender duties in Siam policing merchant shipping and in Malaya overseeing the reconstruction of a rubber plantation, and Farrow's experiences in Malaya and Pakistan on staff duties, with brief comments on the civil unrest in the latter country during the period prior to partition.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1996-01