Description
Object description
Handmade 'commonplace book' compiled by Maltby during his captivity as a prisoner of war in Japanese hands during the Second World War following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941, prefaced with a dedication to his daughters for whom the book was intended, containing a variety of ephemera, drawings, cartoons, verses etc (with many contributions from fellow POWs) and extensive notes by Maltby on his family's genealogy and episodes from his life, partly documenting his confinement in the Argyle Street (Hong Kong), Shirakawa (Formosa / Taiwan) and Mukden (Manchuria) camps during 1942 – 1945, with a few additional postwar items; scrapbook containing an extensive collection of newspaper cuttings, personal letters and transcriptions of letters, photographs, documents etc pertaining to the period of Maltby's military commands as GOC British Troops in China and GOC Hong Kong (1941), the Japanese capture and occupation of Hong Kong, and his time as a POW in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Manchuria, including numerous photographs taken at the time of his arrival in Chungking in August 1945 following his release from captivity with other senior military and civilian POWs formerly held in Mukden; scrapbook titled `The Defence of Hong Kong and After', containing a further collection of newspaper cuttings, letters etc; copy of 'The Wide World' magazine, March 1949, including a feature article 'My Escape from Hong Kong' by Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Goring who had been with Maltby in the HK 'Battle Box', with a covering letter from Goring to Maltby.
Content description
Handmade 'commonplace book' compiled by Maltby during his captivity as a prisoner of war in Japanese hands during the Second World War following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941, prefaced with a dedication to his daughters for whom the book was intended, containing a variety of ephemera, drawings, cartoons, verses etc (with many contributions from fellow POWs) and extensive notes by Maltby on his family's genealogy and episodes from his life, partly documenting his confinement in the Argyle Street (Hong Kong), Shirakawa (Formosa / Taiwan) and Mukden (Manchuria) camps during 1942 – 1945, with a few additional postwar items; scrapbook containing an extensive collection of newspaper cuttings, personal letters and transcriptions of letters, photographs, documents etc pertaining to the period of Maltby's military commands as GOC British Troops in China and GOC Hong Kong (1941), the Japanese capture and occupation of Hong Kong, and his time as a POW in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Manchuria, including numerous photographs taken at the time of his arrival in Chungking in August 1945 following his release from captivity with other senior military and civilian POWs formerly held in Mukden; scrapbook titled `The Defence of Hong Kong and After', containing a further collection of newspaper cuttings, letters etc; copy of 'The Wide World' magazine, March 1949, including a feature article 'My Escape from Hong Kong' by Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Goring who had been with Maltby in the HK 'Battle Box', with a covering letter from Goring to Maltby.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
