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Book of camp medical records (120pp) kept during his time as Medical Officer of 1st Battalion Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, attached to No 5 (POW) Labour Battalion, Group IV, as a far east prisoner of war of the Japanese in Thailand during the Second World War following the surrender of Fortress Singapore, containing lists of patients kept alphabetically, with number, rank, and unit, the majority of men coming from 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces Line of Communication Brigade, 7th Coast Regiment Royal Artillery, 9th Coast Regiment RA, 16th Defence Regiment RA, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, RAMC, and RAOC, as well as details of illnesses, sickness, or injuries, with further details of where they had the illness, Changi, Singapore, or Thailand. There are also sketch plans of a hospital near the rear of the book. Together with: a ts record (1p) written by a Major in 2nd Selangor Battalion, FMSVF, and former 2nd in command of No 5 (POW) Labour Battalion, Group IV, recommending Captain S S Pavillard for a DSO for his devotion to helping the sick on the march from Ban Pong to Tarso Camps, and his dedication to his duties at Wampo camp, and Tonghan South where a cholera epidemic broke out, and where he ran the Cholera Isolation Camp; a pencil sketch of a Medical Officer [Pavillard?] with a stethoscope and Red Cross armband; and a watercolour painting, dated "Tamuang 24 May 1944", of an unnamed man with a blue cap.
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Catalogue date 2006-03-01
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Cataloguer JS
