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Object description
Ts transcripts (5pp and 10pp respectively) of letters written by her and her sister Marjorie from India in April 1942 describing how they had been living with their parents in Rangoon, Burma since February 1938 and had begun to attend Advanced First Aid classes and do voluntary work at a servicemens' club in the city as the political situation in the Far East deteriorated and how she worked as a typist and then as a confidential clerk in the WAS(B) at Military Headquarters from November 1941 onwards and her sister served as a VAD at the British Military Hospital, Mingaladon, from late December and giving their accounts of air raid precautions and other preparations for war in Rangoon, the major Japanese air raids on the city on 23 and 25 December and the effects of the bombing on their family and Rangoon as a whole, and the family's evacuation from Rangoon to Madras in India on the MV MARUDA between 14 and 19 February 1942 as the military situation in Burma became more critical; together with an ms transcript (5pp) of her contemporaneous notes of the times of air raid warnings and air raids on Rangoon in December 1941 and January 1942 and a series of ts papers with ms amendments and additions (46pp in total), probably written in late 1945 or 1946, relating to the planning and completion between 1934 and 1940 of the Pegu Yomas scheme for the water supply of Rangoon on which her father was the chief engineer, during which an earth dam was built on the Gyobyu Lake and a 43 mile overground pipeline was laid to supply twenty million gallons of water to Rangoon each day.
Content description
Ts transcripts (5pp and 10pp respectively) of letters written by her and her sister Marjorie from India in April 1942 describing how they had been living with their parents in Rangoon, Burma since February 1938 and had begun to attend Advanced First Aid classes and do voluntary work at a servicemens' club in the city as the political situation in the Far East deteriorated and how she worked as a typist and then as a confidential clerk in the WAS(B) at Military Headquarters from November 1941 onwards and her sister served as a VAD at the British Military Hospital, Mingaladon, from late December and giving their accounts of air raid precautions and other preparations for war in Rangoon, the major Japanese air raids on the city on 23 and 25 December and the effects of the bombing on their family and Rangoon as a whole, and the family's evacuation from Rangoon to Madras in India on the MV MARUDA between 14 and 19 February 1942 as the military situation in Burma became more critical; together with an ms transcript (5pp) of her contemporaneous notes of the times of air raid warnings and air raids on Rangoon in December 1941 and January 1942 and a series of ts papers with ms amendments and additions (46pp in total), probably written in late 1945 or 1946, relating to the planning and completion between 1934 and 1940 of the Pegu Yomas scheme for the water supply of Rangoon on which her father was the chief engineer, during which an earth dam was built on the Gyobyu Lake and a 43 mile overground pipeline was laid to supply twenty million gallons of water to Rangoon each day.
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Cataloguer RWAS