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Object description
Typed transcription (48pp) of a journal / diary covering the period March 1941 – November 1945 while serving in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) in the Far East, recording the voyage out from Liverpool in the troopship DUCHESS OF YORK via South Africa to Singapore, based at Alexandra and Marlborough camps until the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 where he experienced the first air attacks on Singapore, going into captivity at the fall of the city in February 1942, imprisonment at Changi POW camp from where he was sent out on numerous working parties to various locations outside of the city, transfer to Japan via Saigon in May 1943 to work at the coalmining camp at Orio, Kyushu (= Fukuoka 6), with detailed descriptions of the dangerous conditions and working practices in the mine, with frequent 'punishments' and ill-treatment, his hospitalisation and subsequent employment in the mine workshops until the end of the war in August 1945, recording in daily diary entries his experiences in the camp following its liberation and his repatriation to the Britain via the USA in October – November 1945.
Content description
Typed transcription (48pp) of a journal / diary covering the period March 1941 – November 1945 while serving in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) in the Far East, recording the voyage out from Liverpool in the troopship DUCHESS OF YORK via South Africa to Singapore, based at Alexandra and Marlborough camps until the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 where he experienced the first air attacks on Singapore, going into captivity at the fall of the city in February 1942, imprisonment at Changi POW camp from where he was sent out on numerous working parties to various locations outside of the city, transfer to Japan via Saigon in May 1943 to work at the coalmining camp at Orio, Kyushu (= Fukuoka 6), with detailed descriptions of the dangerous conditions and working practices in the mine, with frequent 'punishments' and ill-treatment, his hospitalisation and subsequent employment in the mine workshops until the end of the war in August 1945, recording in daily diary entries his experiences in the camp following its liberation and his repatriation to the Britain via the USA in October – November 1945.
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