Description
Object description
Records of his family's internment in Ash Camp Civil Assembly Centre, Shanghai, China from March 1943 - August 1945 including his ms bound diary kept as commandant of the British internees giving details principally of camp strength, ration scales, hospital admissions and weather conditions; a ts nominal roll (14pp), with ms amendments, of the internees in the camp (March - June 1945); his younger daughter's diary for March - December 1945 (kept in a 1940 pocket diary) with brief entries describing her life as a 14 year old in the camp, their liberation and her repatriation; five sketches by him of camp scenes and its layout; eight hand-made greetings cards sent to him and his wife during their internment by their elder daughter and friends in the camp; his 'aide-memoire' notebook as British commandant (July - August 1943); his younger daughter's hand-made confirmation and school leaving certificates (1944); Japanese passes issued to his wife and elder daughter for use within the camp and other pertinent documents; together with a few photographs taken in the camp during and just after internment, the red armbands (B 1110 and 1111) worn by his wife and elder daughter respectively in Shanghai from October 1942 till their internment in March 1943, and a handkerchief bearing the embroidered signatures of some fellow internees. With a substantial quantity of associated papers, mostly pertaining to the administration of the Ash camp and to the Clarke family.
Content description
Records of his family's internment in Ash Camp Civil Assembly Centre, Shanghai, China from March 1943 - August 1945 including his ms bound diary kept as commandant of the British internees giving details principally of camp strength, ration scales, hospital admissions and weather conditions; a ts nominal roll (14pp), with ms amendments, of the internees in the camp (March - June 1945); his younger daughter's diary for March - December 1945 (kept in a 1940 pocket diary) with brief entries describing her life as a 14 year old in the camp, their liberation and her repatriation; five sketches by him of camp scenes and its layout; eight hand-made greetings cards sent to him and his wife during their internment by their elder daughter and friends in the camp; his 'aide-memoire' notebook as British commandant (July - August 1943); his younger daughter's hand-made confirmation and school leaving certificates (1944); Japanese passes issued to his wife and elder daughter for use within the camp and other pertinent documents; together with a few photographs taken in the camp during and just after internment, the red armbands (B 1110 and 1111) worn by his wife and elder daughter respectively in Shanghai from October 1942 till their internment in March 1943, and a handkerchief bearing the embroidered signatures of some fellow internees. With a substantial quantity of associated papers, mostly pertaining to the administration of the Ash camp and to the Clarke family.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1997-06