Private Papers of Reverend D B Childe

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Ts transcription of a diary kept by a British Methodist missionary while a civilian internee at a camp in Canton in South China from November 1942 to August 1945.

History note

Catalogue date 2006-02-06

History note

Cataloguer SJC

Object details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Childe, Donald Braithwaite
Dimensions: whole: 1 File
Catalogue number: Documents.14499

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