Description
Object description
Small collection of documents pertaining to his Second World War service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) in the Far East and his captivity in Japanese hands, including: Typed note (1p) dated August 1942 by a British military chaplain in River Valley Road prisoner of war camp, Singapore, stating that he had prepared Taylor for confirmation in that camp, where he had taken his first Holy Communion, and that he should be presented to a Bishop to be formally confirmed as soon as circumstances allow; 5 letters and 21 postcards written to Taylor by his family in Corsham, Wiltshire, during 1942 – 1945 while he was a POW in Singapore and on the Burma-Thailand Railway (most of the cards addressed to No. [Group] 4 POW Camp, Thailand: Tamuang and other camps in that administrative area); his Army Service & Pay Book; humorous cartoon and poem from his pre-war days as a bank employee; three photographs of Taylor; two newspaper cuttings, one being a funeral notice/obituary for Taylor (no date, circa 1971-2) from a local newspaper in Keynsham, where he had been a bank manager.
Content description
Small collection of documents pertaining to his Second World War service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) in the Far East and his captivity in Japanese hands, including: Typed note (1p) dated August 1942 by a British military chaplain in River Valley Road prisoner of war camp, Singapore, stating that he had prepared Taylor for confirmation in that camp, where he had taken his first Holy Communion, and that he should be presented to a Bishop to be formally confirmed as soon as circumstances allow; 5 letters and 21 postcards written to Taylor by his family in Corsham, Wiltshire, during 1942 – 1945 while he was a POW in Singapore and on the Burma-Thailand Railway (most of the cards addressed to No. [Group] 4 POW Camp, Thailand: Tamuang and other camps in that administrative area); his Army Service & Pay Book; humorous cartoon and poem from his pre-war days as a bank employee; three photographs of Taylor; two newspaper cuttings, one being a funeral notice/obituary for Taylor (no date, circa 1971-2) from a local newspaper in Keynsham, where he had been a bank manager.
History note
Cataloguer SWW