Description
Object description
A well written and remarkably objective ms journal (358pp) covering his passage by troopship from the United Kingdom to Singapore (June - July 1941), his service as an LAC on the HQ Staff at the RAF Station Tengah and in Singapore (August 1941 - February 1942), his transfer to Java and capture there (February - March 1942) and his subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war at the camps at Malang (April - August 1942) and Sourabaya (September 1942 - April 1943) in Java, at Haroekoe (May 1943 - July 1944) and Ambon (August - September 1944) in the Molucca Islands, and finally in hospital and various camps in Batavia, Java (October 1944 - September 1945). At Malang and Haroekoe he was employed on airfield repair and construction, but after July 1944 he was unfit, as a result of extreme privation during the voyages in prison ships to and from the Moluccas and conditions at Haroekoe, for further work and was frequently seriously ill. With the account are a number of documents relating to his air force service and period of captivity, including his paybook and identity discs, his RAF Malaya pass, his medical card on liberation, some Japanese banknotes and an amusing parody of the song 'These Foolish Things', as well as several photographs.
Content description
A well written and remarkably objective ms journal (358pp) covering his passage by troopship from the United Kingdom to Singapore (June - July 1941), his service as an LAC on the HQ Staff at the RAF Station Tengah and in Singapore (August 1941 - February 1942), his transfer to Java and capture there (February - March 1942) and his subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war at the camps at Malang (April - August 1942) and Sourabaya (September 1942 - April 1943) in Java, at Haroekoe (May 1943 - July 1944) and Ambon (August - September 1944) in the Molucca Islands, and finally in hospital and various camps in Batavia, Java (October 1944 - September 1945). At Malang and Haroekoe he was employed on airfield repair and construction, but after July 1944 he was unfit, as a result of extreme privation during the voyages in prison ships to and from the Moluccas and conditions at Haroekoe, for further work and was frequently seriously ill. With the account are a number of documents relating to his air force service and period of captivity, including his paybook and identity discs, his RAF Malaya pass, his medical card on liberation, some Japanese banknotes and an amusing parody of the song 'These Foolish Things', as well as several photographs.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1981-11-19