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Letters and other papers relating to his career as a senior RAF officer during the Second World War, serving in Norway in 1940, and including a report of a tour to investigate the feasibility of siting bases there. The rest of the material is primarily concerned with his experiences in the Far East, being in Singapore during the first air raid and involved in the subsequent evacuation, escaping eventually to India; many of the letters are concerned with the fate of the personnel evacuated from the Far East, their various escape attempts and experience in Japanese prisoner of war camps.
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Cataloguer Backlog
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Catalogue date 1973-08-27