Description
Object description
Documents relating to her service with the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) (1942-1946) including an ms summary (4pp) of her feelings on the outbreak of war (September 1939), a brief ms diary (7pp) recording the formation of No 5 WAS(B) mobile canteen (October 1943), a ts letter of appreciation from troops serving with the 2nd Indian Division (December 1943), an ms order to return to WAS(B) headquarters Imphal (July 1945), a movement order to join HQ British and Indian Troops in Japan (November 1945), a copy of a translation of an article which appeared in the local newspaper in Matsue, Japan after the arrival of the WAS(B) to run a canteen (April 1946), a Japanese 'travelling certificate' (April 1946), ms notes (4pp) on a trial of two Japanese prison camp guards at No 3 War Crimes Court, Singapore (July 1946), her military motor vehicle drivers' license (March 1944 - March 1946), a printed programme for the ceremonial handing over of swords by General Kimura, Commander Japanese Burma Area Army (October 1945), an ms (2pp) and a ts (2pp) letter from General Sir Montagu Stopford GCB KBE DSO MC relating to the Chinthe Dinner Club (1949), a copy of the India Army Orders which includes the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) Act, 1944, several photographs of her in uniform with WAS(B) colleagues and a number of press cuttings relating to the WAS(B) and to the Burma campaign in general. The collection also includes the autographs of the wartime comedy double act 'Gert and Daisy' (Elsie and Doris Waters).
Content description
Documents relating to her service with the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) (1942-1946) including an ms summary (4pp) of her feelings on the outbreak of war (September 1939), a brief ms diary (7pp) recording the formation of No 5 WAS(B) mobile canteen (October 1943), a ts letter of appreciation from troops serving with the 2nd Indian Division (December 1943), an ms order to return to WAS(B) headquarters Imphal (July 1945), a movement order to join HQ British and Indian Troops in Japan (November 1945), a copy of a translation of an article which appeared in the local newspaper in Matsue, Japan after the arrival of the WAS(B) to run a canteen (April 1946), a Japanese 'travelling certificate' (April 1946), ms notes (4pp) on a trial of two Japanese prison camp guards at No 3 War Crimes Court, Singapore (July 1946), her military motor vehicle drivers' license (March 1944 - March 1946), a printed programme for the ceremonial handing over of swords by General Kimura, Commander Japanese Burma Area Army (October 1945), an ms (2pp) and a ts (2pp) letter from General Sir Montagu Stopford GCB KBE DSO MC relating to the Chinthe Dinner Club (1949), a copy of the India Army Orders which includes the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) Act, 1944, several photographs of her in uniform with WAS(B) colleagues and a number of press cuttings relating to the WAS(B) and to the Burma campaign in general. The collection also includes the autographs of the wartime comedy double act 'Gert and Daisy' (Elsie and Doris Waters).
History note
Cataloguer AAM
History note
Catalogue date 2002-08-06