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Object description
Transcript (7pp ts) of a talk given by him in the late 1940s (?) pertaining to his capture by the Japanese in Singapore in February 1942 while serving with 316 Battery, 5th Searchlight Regiment Royal Artillery (RA), and subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war, initially in Changi and then for most of the remainder of the war in Saigon (French Indo-China), being put to work as a stevedore in the docks, describing the working conditions, opportunities for trading with locals and the appropriation of goods from the ship cargos, the operation of a concealed radio set, and events at the end of the war in 1945; also a copy of a newspaper article written at the time of Glossop's death in 1980, and a printed card containing a photograph copy of a postcard written by Glossop to his family from the Saigon camp in 1943, in which he used morse code to give the camp's true identity (the Japanese gave its location as Thailand to conceal their breach of the Geneva Convention in holding POWs in French Indo-China).
Content description
Transcript (7pp ts) of a talk given by him in the late 1940s (?) pertaining to his capture by the Japanese in Singapore in February 1942 while serving with 316 Battery, 5th Searchlight Regiment Royal Artillery (RA), and subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war, initially in Changi and then for most of the remainder of the war in Saigon (French Indo-China), being put to work as a stevedore in the docks, describing the working conditions, opportunities for trading with locals and the appropriation of goods from the ship cargos, the operation of a concealed radio set, and events at the end of the war in 1945; also a copy of a newspaper article written at the time of Glossop's death in 1980, and a printed card containing a photograph copy of a postcard written by Glossop to his family from the Saigon camp in 1943, in which he used morse code to give the camp's true identity (the Japanese gave its location as Thailand to conceal their breach of the Geneva Convention in holding POWs in French Indo-China).
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