Description
Object description
Photocopies of 1 ts and 8 ms letters written to his family between September 1940 and September 1942, the majority describing his experiences following the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941, initially as a canning officer in the Department of Agriculture in Jahore and then as an RNVR officer in the Singapore Harbour naval tug ST BREOCK, which was sunk on 14 February 1942 while en route from Singapore to Sumatra. One letter gives a graphic account of how he continued his voyage, proceeding from island to island by small boat, and was eventually evacuated from Sumatra to Ceylon in a British warship, while the correspondence generally throws useful light on the reactions of the British and local communities to the Japanese invasion of Malaya. Other letters in the collection contain his eye-witness accounts of the centenary celebrations in Sarawak in September 1940 and of a crash landing in the Ceylon jungle in September 1942.
Content description
Photocopies of 1 ts and 8 ms letters written to his family between September 1940 and September 1942, the majority describing his experiences following the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941, initially as a canning officer in the Department of Agriculture in Jahore and then as an RNVR officer in the Singapore Harbour naval tug ST BREOCK, which was sunk on 14 February 1942 while en route from Singapore to Sumatra. One letter gives a graphic account of how he continued his voyage, proceeding from island to island by small boat, and was eventually evacuated from Sumatra to Ceylon in a British warship, while the correspondence generally throws useful light on the reactions of the British and local communities to the Japanese invasion of Malaya. Other letters in the collection contain his eye-witness accounts of the centenary celebrations in Sarawak in September 1940 and of a crash landing in the Ceylon jungle in September 1942.
History note
Cataloguer Backlog
History note
Catalogue date 1982-05-12