Description
Object description
Photocopy of a brief, undated ms memoir (12pp) of his service as an RAMC officer, covering his troopship voyage to Singapore in 1940, his appointments in military hospitals there and, by the time of the surrender in February 1942, as Company Officer of No 32 Company RAMC based on Alexandra Hospital, his service in a similar capacity as a prisoner of war in Roberts Hospital in Changi camp, Singapore (February 1942 - June 1943), his journey up to the Burma-Siam railway and employment with a small number of orderlies at some of the camps for impressed native labourers established along the route of the railway (1943 - 1945), and his liberation and repatriation; together with photocopies of one pro-forma postcard which he sent home from Thailand, a presscutting photograph of him immediately following his repatriation and an official letter from the War Office, dated August 1946, informing him of his mention in despatches and a small colour photograph of him in later life.
Content description
Photocopy of a brief, undated ms memoir (12pp) of his service as an RAMC officer, covering his troopship voyage to Singapore in 1940, his appointments in military hospitals there and, by the time of the surrender in February 1942, as Company Officer of No 32 Company RAMC based on Alexandra Hospital, his service in a similar capacity as a prisoner of war in Roberts Hospital in Changi camp, Singapore (February 1942 - June 1943), his journey up to the Burma-Siam railway and employment with a small number of orderlies at some of the camps for impressed native labourers established along the route of the railway (1943 - 1945), and his liberation and repatriation; together with photocopies of one pro-forma postcard which he sent home from Thailand, a presscutting photograph of him immediately following his repatriation and an official letter from the War Office, dated August 1946, informing him of his mention in despatches and a small colour photograph of him in later life.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2003-03