Description
Object description
Photocopies of: his correspondence with his parents in Lowestoft, Suffolk comprising four pro-forma prisoner of war postcards, one from Singapore (probably written in June 1942) and three from Thailand in 1943 - 1944 (during these years he was in the camps at Tarkilin and Chungkai) and eight ms letters and one pro-forma postcard written following his liberation, August - October 1945, and describing his evacuation by air from Bangkok to Rangoon in Burma and the first stages of his voyage home on the Dutch ship MV BOISSEVAIN as well as generally playing down the privations of captivity - 'all the horror stories... do not apply to any of my experiences' - apart from the shortages of food and clothing, though admitting that ex-prisoners could appear 'a bit crackers' as they had become so out of touch, and also commenting on his enjoyments of the luxuries given to them since their release and on a speech delivered by Lord Louis Mountbatten in Rangoon; and of two official letters (1p each) from the War Office to his father, the first (November 1942) stating that Baunton had been wounded during the fighting in Singapore and the second (September 1945) giving the news of his liberation. Baunton was serving in the 2nd Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment (18th Division) when he was taken prisoner on the fall of Singapore in February 1942.
Content description
Photocopies of: his correspondence with his parents in Lowestoft, Suffolk comprising four pro-forma prisoner of war postcards, one from Singapore (probably written in June 1942) and three from Thailand in 1943 - 1944 (during these years he was in the camps at Tarkilin and Chungkai) and eight ms letters and one pro-forma postcard written following his liberation, August - October 1945, and describing his evacuation by air from Bangkok to Rangoon in Burma and the first stages of his voyage home on the Dutch ship MV BOISSEVAIN as well as generally playing down the privations of captivity - 'all the horror stories... do not apply to any of my experiences' - apart from the shortages of food and clothing, though admitting that ex-prisoners could appear 'a bit crackers' as they had become so out of touch, and also commenting on his enjoyments of the luxuries given to them since their release and on a speech delivered by Lord Louis Mountbatten in Rangoon; and of two official letters (1p each) from the War Office to his father, the first (November 1942) stating that Baunton had been wounded during the fighting in Singapore and the second (September 1945) giving the news of his liberation. Baunton was serving in the 2nd Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment (18th Division) when he was taken prisoner on the fall of Singapore in February 1942.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2004-11