King's College London

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

The Far East

The subject guide which follows is intended to provide a brief indication of the wide range of material relating to the Far East now found in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. This includes papers relating to Borneo, Burma, China, Hong Kong, Indochina, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Singapore and Vietnam. For further detailed information on collections, please consult our List of Collections for links to Summary Guides and detailed catalogues.

ABRAHAM, Maj Gen Sir William Ernest Victor (1897-1980)
Commanded Upper Burma Battalion, Burma Auxiliary Force, 1932-1937.

Papers, 1931-1979, including correspondence concerning the Burma Star Association, 1945-1979.

ALANBROOKE, FM Alan Francis, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (Sir Alan Brooke) (1883-1963)
Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1941-1946.

Papers, 1883-1963, including detailed personal diaries, 1939-1946 (ref: Alanbrooke 5); correspondence with Adm Lord Louis Mountbatten, South East Asia Command, 1943-1945 (ref Alanbrooke 6/2/52); correspondence with Lt Gen F A M Browning, South East Asia Command, 1944-1945 (ref: Alanbrooke 6/2/56); correspondence with Winston Churchill on strategy in the Pacific, 1944 (ref: Alanbrooke 6/3/11).

ANDERTON, Col Geoffrey (1902-1981)
Service with Royal Army Medical Corps, Korea, 1950-1952.

Papers, 1944-1952, including a report on the expansion of the Hong Kong garrison, 1949; photographs of Anderton in Korea, c 1950; an article, 'The Birth of the British Commonwealth Division, Korea', printed in The Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (Jan 1953).

ARMSTRONG, Cdr Sidney John
Service in Far East, 1937.

Text of lecture on the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and China, 1937, including a detailed account of the Battle of Shanghai as witnessed from HMS DANAE.

ASHTON, Brig William Proctor Bell (1897-1981)
Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (Engineering), Malaya Command, 1941-1942.

Two reports on ordnance engineering services in Malaya for the period 1941-1942, written by Ashton in 1946; papers relating to above reports, principally comprising Ashton's report to Air Cdre Modin on RAF Senior Training Corps mechanics attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Malaya, 1942-1943; an account of ordnance engineering services in Malaya, 1941-1942 by the Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (Engineering), 3 Indian Corps; reports on ordnance services in Malaya, 1941-1942, written for Ashton by Capt E J Coulthard, H J Howland and Lt G A Neale in 1946.

BALDWIN, Gp Capt Philip Harold (b 1917)
Service in World War Two with 177 Squadron.

Report, 'Low Level Beaufighter Sorties during the Burma War: 177 Squadron, Sept 1943', with photographs and map.

BARBER, Lt Col Norman Alexander (1906-1994)
Service with Royal Army Service Corps, Far East, 1942; POW, 1942-1945.

Papers including a detailed diary kept as a POW, Changi Camp, Singapore, 1942-1945, a nominal roll of inmates, and letters home, Sep-Oct 1945.

BARKER, AVM John Lindsay (b 1910)
Commander of 'Shield Force', Far East, 1945.

Chiefs of Staff signal ordering Barker to re-establish British administration in Hong Kong, 1945.

BEARNE, AVM Guy (b 1908)
Staff Officer in charge of administration, RAF Malaya, 1946.

Memoirs covering his career, 1929-1961, including details of his service in Malaya, 1946.

BELL, Frank (1916-1989)
POW, Borneo, 1942-1945.

Undercover University: illustrated account of the illicit education courses Bell ran in Kuching POW camp, Borneo, 1943-1945, written 1945- 1946 and privately published in 1990.

BOLT, R Adm Arthur Seymour (1907-1994)
Capt, HMS THESEUS, Korean War, 1949-1951.

Papers including Night Order book, HMS THESEUS, Korea, 1950-1951; press cuttings relating to HMS THESEUS' service in the Korean War; transcript of a lecture given by Bolt at Royal United Services Institute, 1951, 'HMS THESEUS in the Korean War and some special problems of naval aviation in that theatre' printed in The RUSI Journal, 1951.

BOWRING, Maj Gen John Humphrey Stephen (b 1913)
Chief Engineer, Far East Land Forces, 1961-1964.

Papers including a report by Bowring on engineer operations in Borneo, 1963.

BRIND, Adm Sir (Eric James) Patrick (1892-1963)
Commanded cruisers in the British Pacific Fleet, 1945; Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, 1948-1951.

Papers, 1916-1958, including an official report on the blockade of Shanghai and British inability to defend Hong Kong from possible future attack by Chinese Communist forces, 1949; press cuttings relating to the blockade of HMS AMETHYST in the Yangtse River, China, and Brind's order, as Commander-in-Chief Far Eastern Fleet, for the successful breakout, 1949.

BROOKE-POPHAM, ACM Sir Henry Robert Moore (1878-1953)
Commander-in-Chief, Far East, 1940-1942

Papers, 1890-1953, including correspondence as Commander-in-Chief, Far East, 1940-1942 (ref: Brooke-Popham 5/1-7).

BRYCE, Lt Col Donald P (1906-1980)
Service with 3 Indian Div, Burma, World War Two.

Copy of a paper by Sir Robert Thompson and Brig P W Mead, 'Judgement on Major General O C Wingate, DSO', written on behalf of the Chindits Old Comrades Association.

BUCKLE, Maj Gen Denys Herbert Vintcent (1902-1994)
Bde Maj, Malaya Infantry Bde, 1938-1940; Deputy Quartermaster General, Far East Land Forces, 1946-1948.

Memoirs relating to his family and career, 1902-1989, including his service in Malaya, 1938-1940 and Far East Land Forces 1946-1948.

BUSH, Capt Eric Wheler, RN (1899-1985)
Service on China Station, 1926-1928, 1932-1934.

Papers including photographs relating to his career, 1912-1944.

CAMPBELL, Maj Gen Lorn Robert Henry Dick (1846-1913)
China Expedition, 1900-1901.

Two albums of papers and photographs including material relating to the China Expedition.

CAPPER, Maj Gen Sir Thompson (1863-1915)
Professor, Staff College Camberley, 1902-1904; Commandant, Staff College Quetta, India, 1906-1911.

Papers, 1901-1914, including research papers on the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; Diaries and Lectures of Officers of the Indian Staff College visiting the Manchurian Battlefields in 1907 (Government Branch Press, Simla, 1908), including Capper's diary of the visit.

CARMICHAEL, Lt Col Humphrey Rawstone (1915-1995)
Joined 17 Dogra Regiment, Indian Army, 1937; seconded to RAF, 1941-1944.

Typescript account by Carmichael, 'The capture and escape of Pilot Officer H R Carmichael, MC, Arakan, Burma, 1943'.

DE CHAIR, Cdr Henry Dudley Graham (1905-1995)
Commander of destroyer HMS THRACIAN, Hong Kong Local Defence Flotilla, 1938-1941.

Journal, 1935-1939, including service as Commander of HMS THRACIAN and relations with the Japanese, 1938-1939.

DEWING, Maj Gen Richard Henry (1891-1981)
Chief of Staff, Far East, 1940-1941.

Diary, 1939-1941.

DIMOLINE, Maj Gen William Alfred (1897-1965)
Commander, 28 East African Bde, Ceylon, India and Burma, 1944-1945; Commander, 11 East African Div, Burma, 1945-1946.

Papers, 1914-1965, including official correspondence as Commander, 28 Bde and 11 Div, Burma and India, 1944-1946.

ELLIOTT, Col Geoffrey Grahame (1909-1981)
Service with 1 Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, in Malaya, 1952.

Two accounts of the service of his battalion, Malaya, 1952.

FEARON, Lt Col Sheppard Percy (1911-1984)
Service in Malayan campaign 1940-1942; POW, 1942-1945.

Account of his career, 1929-1947, especially concerning the Malayan campaign and his work as a POW on the Burma-Siam railway.

FIELDING-MOULD, Lt Col Reginald H, RA (1898-1987)
Gunnery Instructor, Royal Artillery; seconded to Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-Shek to establish a gunnery school, 1944.

Taped reminiscences covering his career.

FREEMAN, Capt J A D
Service with 5 Indian Div, Java, 1945-1946.

Typescript article, 'The re-occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, 1945-46', written 1990 and relating partly to Freeman's service with 5 Indian Div.

GIBBS, AM Sir Gerald Ernest (1896-1992)
Senior Air Staff Officer, 3 Tactical Air Force, South East Asia, 1943-1944.

Papers, 1927-1978, including a lecture on air power in the Burma Campaign, 1944, given to the Joint Staff College, India, 1954.

GRACEY, Gen Sir Douglas David (1894-1964)
Commander, 20 Indian Div, India and Burma, 1942-1946; Commander, Allied Land Forces, French Indochina, 1945-1946.

Papers relating to Burma and Indochina, 1941-1947, comprising reports, correspondence and notes relating to operations of 20 Indian Div from Ceylon to Kabaw Valley and Kyaukchau, Burma, 1942-1944; from Shenam to Kalewa, Burma, Apr-Dec, 1944; Monywa and the Irrawaddy and the capture of Kyaukse, Burma, Jan-Aug, 1945. Also orders, correspondence and messages relating to operations of 20 Indian Div in French Indochina 1945-1947; a typescript section of an unpublished history of 20 Indian Div in World War Two, compiled 1944-1947, and translations of Japanese documents relating to operations in Burma, 1941-1945.

HAINES, William Arthur C (1899-1991)
Service in the Malayan Police Force, 1920-1950.

Memoir of his career, including accounts of action against Malay and Siamese bandits in Kedah, and rubber smuggling in Fort Dickson.

HAMILTON, Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith (1853-1947)
Military Representative of India, Japanese Field Army, Manchuria, 1904; Chief of Military Mission with Japanese Armies, 1904.

Papers, 1874-1947, including a copy of a report on the use of cavalry in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, compiled by British Army officers attached to Japanese forces (ref: Hamilton 1/11); correspondence, 1905-1909, concerning the publication of Hamilton's book, A Staff Officer's Scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese War (Edward Arnold, London, 1905) and proposed subsequent research (ref: Hamilton 7/1/9, 7/3/3-8, 28).

HARRISON, Maj Gen Desmond (1896-1984)
Engineer-in-Chief, South East Asia, 1943-1945.

Papers, 1943-1947, including a report by Harrison and Maj Gen Sir Horace Roome, 'The construction of forward airfields in South East Asia areas', 1945; typescript memoranda on the major engineering lessons of the war in South East Asia, c 1945; report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943-1945, dated 1947.

HERBERT, Brig C E M
Service in Middle East, Australia and Burma, World War Two.

File of papers including copy letters of appreciation relating to the work of the Transportation Service in rehabilitating railways in Burma, 1946; record of service, 1922-1946.

HEARD, Lt Col John Arthur 'Archie' (1908-1985)
Indian Army, World War Two.

Papers, 1943-1945, relating to anti-Japanese counter-propaganda in the Indian Army, World War Two.

HINDE, Lt Col Reginald Graham (1887-1982)
Service with 124 Baluchistan Infantry, Indian Army, in India, China and Persia, 1908-20.

Photographs of China, 1911-1913.

HOGAN, Sir Michael (1908-1986)
Attorney General, Federation of Malaya, 1950-1955.

Contemporary report relating to the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney, High Commissioner of Malaya, by the Malayan Races' Liberation Army, 1951.

HOUGHTON-BROWN, Col Jack (d 1982)
Service with Wiltshire Regt in India and Burma, 1943-1945.

Copy of typescript memoirs, 'Farmer-Soldier', covering his life and career 1905-1945.

HUMPHREYS, Cdr Lawrence Anthony (d 1985)
Service on HMS TARANTULA, touring Malaya, Hong Kong and the China coast, 1918-1919.

Diary of HMS TARANTULA's Far East tour, 1918-1919.

HUTTON, Lt Gen Sir Thomas Jacomb (1890-1981)
Deputy Chief of Staff, Allied HQ India, 1940-1941; Chief of General Staff, India, 1941; General Officer Commanding Burma, 1942; Chief of General Staff, Burma, 1942.

Papers, 1914-1918 and 1941-1944, including telegrams, correspondence, notes, appointment diary and maps, 1939-1944, relating to first Burma Campaign; telegrams from Hutton to Gen Sir Archibald Wavell, Jan-Mar 1942, relating to operations on the Bilin and Sittang rivers, and to the defence of Rangoon; official reports, correspondence, press cuttings and published articles, 1941-1958, relating to events leading to the fall of Rangoon and the end of the first Burma Campaign; copy of Wavell's official correspondence file, used for the compilation of the official history of the Burma Campaign, 1958; correspondence with Wavell relating to the fall of Rangoon, Jun-Jul 1942; papers, 1942-1978, relating to histories of the first Burma Campaign; correspondence, 1954-1956, with Maj Gen S W Kirby, and draft of his official history, The War Against Japan, Volume II: India's Most Dangerous Hour, with notes of amendments by Hutton; typescript copy of Hutton's memoir of the first Burma Campaign, 'Rangoon, 1941-1942: a personal record' written 1974-1976.

HYNES Brig William Henry (b 1893)
Service with 1 Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Singapore, 1938.

Photograph album and press cuttings relating to the presentation of colours, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Singapore, 1938.

ISMAY, General Hastings Lionel, 1st Baron Ismay (1887-1965)
Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet, 1940-1945; Additional Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet, 1945; Chief of Staff to Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India, Mar-Nov, 1947.

Papers, 1893-1965, notably including correspondence, 1942-1943, with Maj Gen G E Grimsdale, Head of Military Mission to Chungking, China (ref: Ismay 4/Gri/1-7); correspondence, 1943-1964, with Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943-1946 (ref: Ismay 4/Mou/1-129); correspondence, 1943-1947, with AF Sir James Somerville, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet, 1942-1944 (ref: Ismay 4/Som/1-10).

JACOBS-LARKCOM, Col Eric Herbert (1895-1982)
Service with Military Mission to China, 1942-1945.

Diaries, 1943-1945.

JAMES, Lt Col Noel (1910-1985)
Commanding Officer Ordnance, Ammunition Dumps, Singapore, 1942.

Typescript account of his experiences during the fall of Singapore and his escape to Sumatra, Jan-Feb 1942, written in 1948.

JOHNSTON, Maj Duncan (1914-1945)
Commanding Officer, Force Viper, Burma, 1942; service with Detachment 385, carrying out small boat clandestine operations against the Japanese from a base in Ceylon, 1944-1945; killed in action, Feb 1945.

File of papers, 1942-1945 including typescript copy of Johnston's account of Force Viper operations, Burma, 1942; copy of account, 'The Red Vipers' by Cecil Hampshire, published in The RUSI Journal, 1968; copy of Johnston's obituary from The Times, 1945.

KIRBY, Maj Gen Stanley Woodburn (1895-1968)
Service with Royal Engineers, Singapore, 1923-1926.

Papers connected with his book, Singapore, the Chain of Disaster (Cassell & Co, London, 1971) relating to events leading to the Japanese capture of Singapore in 1942.

KIRKE, Gen Sir Walter Mervyn St George (1877-1949)
Commander in Chief, Home Forces, 1939-1940; retired, 1940; lecturer and broadcaster, 1940-1949.

Papers, 1921-1949, including texts of BBC propaganda broadcasts, 1943-1945, reviewing the progress of the war worldwide, including campaigns in the Far East, Dec 1943 - Jul 1944 (ref: Kirke 22)

KUHN-REGNIER, Lt Col Peter Francis (1921-1981)
POW in Burma and Siam, 1942-1945.

File of copy papers and photographs, 1942-1945, including diary of events in Tamnan Camp, Aug 1945; diary of evacuation and voyage home to the UK, 1945; press cuttings on POWs in South East Asia, 1944-1945.

LATHBURY, Lt Col John Frank Fyson (1911-1985)
Service with Royal Engineers, Burma and Malaya, World War Two.

File of papers, 1931 and 1945-1950, relating principally to his service in South East Asia, World War Two, and including an order of the day for 21 Mar 1945 relating to the recapture of Mandalay, by Lt Gen Sir Montagu Stopford, Commander of 33 Indian Corps, Burma.

LETHBRIDGE, Maj Gen John Sydney (1897-1961)
Commander, 220 'Lethbridge' Mission to Australia and United States, 1943-1944, researching effective methods of combating Japanese forces in jungle conditions; Chief of Staff, 14 Army, Burma, 1944-1945.

Report, photographs, slides and correspondence relating to the Lethbridge Mission, 1943-1944; letters home from Burma, 1944-1945, and operational and administrative notes relating to the Burma campaign, 1945.

LIDDELL HART, Capt Sir Basil Henry (1895-1970)
Military historian and strategist; Military Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, 1925-1935, and for The Times, 1935-1939.

Papers, 1870-1976, including articles written by Liddell Hart on the Chinese Civil War and British protection of Shanghai, 1927 (ref: LH 10/1927/17, 18, 26, 40, 42, 43, 70); articles on the progress of the war in the Far East, 1944 (ref: LH 10/1944/16, 17, 49); retrospective articles on aspects of World War Two in the Far East, 1952-1955 (ref: LH 10/1952/1, 10/1954/11, 19/1955/10); notes and memoranda on Japan's preparedness for war, 1935-1939 (ref: LH 11/1935/112, 159, 11/1937/68, 11/1939/73); notes on the historical perspective behind Japanese actions and the situation in the Far East (ref: LH 11/1941/81-85); notes on conversations concerning the progress of the war in the Far East, 1941-45 (ref: LH 11/1941/78, 11/1942/18, 20, 33, 46, 47, 54, 11/1944/61, 11/1945/9); notes on a conversation with Gen Sir William Slim about Burma, 1947 (ref: LH 11/1947/5: see also LH 1/645, for correspondence with Slim, 1947-1968); notes on the Korean War, 1950-1951 (ref: LH 11/1950/27, 34, 11/1951/4). Liddell Hart's letters include other references to the Far East, notably his correspondence with Quentin Bell on the Sino-Japanese War, 1937 (ref: LH 1/60); correspondence with Charles Grey, founder and editor of aviation journal The Aeroplane, 1940-1953, including reference to British attitudes to the defence of Hong Kong, 1949 (ref: LH 1/332); correspondence with Brig Gen Samuel B Griffiths, US Army, 1957-1969, notably including comment on the Chinese Army, 1958; correspondence, 1955-1968 (ref: LH 1/333); with the Rt Hon Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1964-1970, including comment on the role of British Forces in the Far East, 1966 (ref; LH 1/363). There is also a rich vein of secondary material relating to the course of World War Two in the Far East (ref: LH 15/4), principally newspaper cuttings and the texts of official despatches.

LINDSELL, Lt Gen Sir Wilfrid Gordon (1884-1973)
Principal Administration Officer, Indian Command, 1943-1945.

Papers including memoranda, correspondence, and lectures mainly on India as a base for Far East operations, 1944-1945.

McCUTCHEON, Col William Melville (1911-1983)
Commissioned into Indian Medical Service, 1939; transferred to Royal Army Medical Corps, 1947; entomologist, School of Health, Far East Land Forces, Singapore, 1957-1961; Deputy Director of Army Health, Far East Land Forces, Singapore, 1965-1967.

Papers, 1938-1974, including notes on encephalitis and on respiratory tract infection, Singapore, 1958-1959; incidents of snake bite and the use of anti-venom, 1958-1962; photographs of Malaya, 1958-1961; lecture notes on the health of troops in a tropical climate, 1960; report and photographs on flood relief operations, Vientiane, Laos, Sep 1966.

MACE, Col Rex C
Service, 1939-1945, with Dogra Regiment, Indian Army; subsequently Secretary, Dogra Regimental Association.

Accounts of service of individual members and units of the Dogra Regiment, Indian Army, in Malaya and Burma, World War Two.

MACNEILL, Maj Gen John Malcolm (1909-1996)
Colonel on General Staff, South East Asia, 1945; General Staff Officer (Grade 1), School of Air Support, 1945-1948.

Papers, 1942-1945, including notes on offensive air support, Burma, 1944-1945.

MAN, Maj Gen Christopher Mark Morrice (1914-1989)
Service in World War Two with 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regt, Hong Kong, 1939-1945; POW of Japanese, 1941-1945.

Two official Admiralty photographs of the Hong Kong surrender ceremony 1945.

MANNING, Air Cdre Frederick John (1912-1988)
Senior Air Advisor and Deputy Head of Mission, British Services Mission, Burma, 1949-1952.

Draft letter to Burmese Chief of Air Staff, relating to outline costings for Five Squadron Programme, Burma Air Force, 1952.

MARKS, Brig (Robert) Neville Falkiner (1901-1944)
Senior Administrative Assistant to Gen Orde Wingate, Special Force (Chindit) HQ, India Command, 1943-1944; killed in air crash, Burma, 1944.

Correspondence, cuttings and photographs relating to Marks' death, 1944.

MEAD, Lt Col Clement Alfred (1899-1986)
Service in World War Two in Malaya; POW in Japan, 1942-1945.

Copy of affidavit 'In the Matter of War Crimes committed by Japanese Nationals and in the Matter of Ill-treatment of POWs (Civilian Internees) at Heito, Formosa, Prisoner of War Camp', 1946.

MEATES, Lt Col Geoffrey Wells (1900-1985)
Service in India and Burma, 1921-1927.

Diaries, 1919-1927, and correspondence with his parents, 1921-1927.

MENAUL, AVM Stewart William Blacker 'Paddy' (1915-1987)
Commandant, Joint Services Staff College, 1965-1967; Director General , Royal United Services Institute, 1968-1976; defence consultant, 1976-1987.

Papers, 1955-1986, comprising journal articles, press cuttings, government and defence industry briefing papers and publications, 1969-1986, relating to national and international defence issues, multilateral agreements and military actions and including coverage of Asia, Australasia, China, the Indian Ocean, Vietnam, Japan and Korea (ref: Menaul 7).

MESSERVY, Gen Sir Frank Walter (1893-1974)
Commander, 7 Indian Div, Burma, 1944. Commander, 4 Corps, at the capture of Rangoon, Burma, 1945; Commander-in-Chief, Malaya Command, 1945.

Papers, 1941-1954, including training and operation instructions, 7 Indian Div, Arakan and Imphal, Burma, 1943-1945; accounts of operations in Burma by 25 Indian Div, 4 Corps, 15 Indian Corps, 32 Indian Corps, 12 Army and 14 Army, 1944-1945; official report by Maj Gen Sir Nigel Tapp on a tour of the Keren battlefield, Burma, by the Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces, 1947.

MOCKLER, Surgeon Capt Eamon Joseph (1902-1983)
Chief Malariologist with the British Pacific Fleet, 1943-1946; Naval Medical Officer of Health for Hong Kong, 1951-1952.

Reports written as Chief Malariologist, British Pacific Fleet, 1943, 1946; subjects including the treatment and control of malaria, Mockler's work in Singapore, 1945-1946 and his visit to Hong Kong, 1946. Also two reports written as Naval Medical Officer of Health, Hong Kong, 1951 and 1952.

MOORE, Lt Col Alleyn Cardwell (1898-1983)
Service with 4/8 Punjab Regt during the Burma Rebellion, 1931-1933.

Papers, 1928-1932, including regimental history, 1894-1947.

MORRISS, Louis Arnold George (c1896-1968)
Colonial Civil Service, Malayan Road Transport Dept, Kuala Lumpur, c 1936-1942; Pilot Officer, RAF Volunteer Reserve Kuala Lumpur, 1942; POW, Java and Japan, 1942-1945; Commissioner, Malayan Road Transport Dept, Kuala Lumpur, 1947-1949.

Correspondence, writings, photographs and ephemera covering his civil and military service, 1940-1947, especially his experiences as a POW.

MULLENEUX, Cdr Hugh
Service in Pacific, Japan and Australia, 1945-1946.

Copies and transcripts of diaries, 1939-1946.

'MY LAI'
Research papers, principally copies of US official documents, compiled by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim for their television documentary (a Yorkshire Television and WGBH Boston co-production) and book, both entitled 4 Hours in My Lai, concerning the killing of 400 civilians in the village of My Lai, Vietnam, by troops of Task Force Baker, 11 Bde, Americal Div, US Army, Mar 1968.

NEWEY, Lt Col Thomas Henry (1897-1983)
Assistant Controller of Posts, Singapore and Commander, 1 Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, 1942; POW, Changi Camp, Singapore, Feb 1942 - May 1943; put in charge of 5 Battalion, H Force during their work on the Burma-Thailand railway, May-Oct 1943; prisoners' representative, Changi Camp, 1943-1945.

File of copy papers, 1943-1945, comprising an account of the treatment of H Force during their work on the Burma-Thailand railway, 1943, written in 1945; a notebook containing financial accounts and a register of deaths for 5 Battalion, H Force, 1943; an account of the experiences of 1 Subsection, H Force, Sep-Nov 1943.

NICHOLS, Capt Charles Alfred Godfrey, RN (1898-1986)
Service with the Australian Navy in the Pacific, 1944-46.

Lecture transcripts and articles on the Australian Navy in World War Two, especially HMAS SHROPSHIRE.

NORTH, Lt Col Oliver Brian Masters (d 1991)
17 Dogra Regiment, Indian Army, Far East, 1941-1942.

Typescript account by Lt Col O B M North, 'The first 48 hours of the Japanese landing at Khota Balun, Malaya [Kota Bharn, Malaysia], 7 Dec 1941', with additional account of North's war service by Capt R B Monteath, for Dogra Regimental Association newsletter, 1991.

NORTON, Lt Gen Edward Felix (1884-1954)
Acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1940-1941.

File of papers, 1909-1914 and 1940-1941, including copy press cuttings and photographs relating to Norton's service as acting Governor, Hong Kong, 1940-1941.

'THE NUCLEAR AGE'
Videotapes and transcripts of interviews for a series of twelve programmes, The Nuclear Age, on the history of nuclear weaponry and strategy made jointly by Central Independent Television plc and WGBH Boston, 1989, including interviews conducted in 1987 with Japanese civil servants and scientists working on Japan's nuclear energy programme, members of peace movements, and Hiroshima survivors.

PENNEY, Maj Gen Sir (William) Ronald Campbell (1896-1964)
Bde Maj, Shanghai, 1931-1933; India, 1935-1939, North West Frontier, 1937; Signal Officer-in-Chief, Middle East, 1943-1944; Director of Intelligence, HQ Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1944-1945.

Papers, 1920-1962, including papers relating to Shanghai, China, 1931-1933; memoranda from General Staff, Shanghai, from the City Government, Shanghai and from W R Connor Green, British Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, concerning relations between the Chinese and Japanese, and the role of the British garrison in the protection of the city, 1931-1933; war diary of British Troops, China, Jan-Jun 1932, concerning Japanese invasion of Shanghai; maps of Shanghai, 1927-1932.

PIRIE, ACM Sir George Clark (1896-1980)
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia, 1946-1947.

Papers, 1918-1977, including manuscript transcripts of extracts from personal diaries, 1923-1977.

POMFRET, Surgeon R Adm Arnold Ashworth (1900-1984)
Medical Officer-in-Charge, Weihaiwei, North China, 1938-1940.

Papers, 1938-1975, mostly concerning the Japanese take-over of Weihaiwei, North China, 1940.

POWNALL, Lt Gen Sir Henry Royds (1887-1961)
Commander-in-Chief, Far East, 1941-1942; Chief of Staff, American, British, Dutch, Australian Command, Far East, 1942; General Officer Commanding Ceylon, 1942-1943; Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943-1944.

Diaries, 1933-1945, including letters, extracts from reports and photographs.

PROCTER, Maj John Harold (1917-1950)
Service with 2 Battalion, Malay Regt, 1942; POW, 1942-1945.

Two albums of photographs taken in Keijo POW camp, Korea, 1942-1944.

PYMAN, Gen Sir Harold English (1908-1971)
Chief of General Staff, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, 1945-1946.

Papers, 1937-1971, including diaries as Chief of General Staff to Gen Sir William Slim, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, 1945-1946; official reports and reviews relating to strategy in the Far East, 1945-1947.

RAMSAY RAE, AVM Ronald Arthur (1910-1994)
Armament officer, Far East, 1938-1942; Commander, RAF Tengah, Singapore, 1942; POW, 1943-1945.

Memorial addresses and obituaries with details of his service commanding Tengah airfield, Singapore, 1942, and of his subsequent capture and imprisonment by Japanese.

SIMPSON, Lt Cdr Denis Louis (d 1987)
Service in World War Two in Madagascar and Far East, 1942.

Microfilm copy of diary, 1942-1945.

SIMSON, Brig Ivan (1890-1971)
Chief Engineer, Malaya Command, 1941-1942.

Account of campaign and later typescript published under the title Singapore, Too Little Too Late: some aspects of the Malayan Disaster in 1942 (Leo Cooper, London, 1970).

'SINGAPORE UNDER THE JAPANESE'
Taped oral history interviews, and summary transcripts, collected by the Singapore Government Oral History Dept to document life in Singapore under the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.

SLINGSBY, Lt Col William Laurence (1919-1994)
Service with King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Burma, 1940.

File of papers, 1940-1962, including letters home from Burma, 1940.

SPOONER, Megan (née Foster) (1898-1987)
Noted soprano, married Ernest John Spooner DSO RN, 1926; accompanied him to his final posting as R Adm, Malaya, 1941-1942; evacuated immediately prior to the fall of Singapore, 1942. R Adm Spooner escaped but later died of fever on Chibia Island, off the coast of Sumatra.

Diaries, and letters of Megan and Ernest Spooner to their son and her parents, covering the period from R Adm Spooner's posting to Singapore to her evacuation, 10 Feb 1942; press cuttings, photographs, and some correspondence relating to the discovery of R Adm Spooner's grave in 1945.

STEVENSON-HAMILTON, Lt Col Vivian Edgar Olmar (1907-1986)
Service in World War Two chiefly with 4 Prince of Wales Own Gurkha Rifles in Burma, Italy and India.

Papers, 1940-1964, including intelligence notes for 71 Indian Infantry Bde, Maungdaw, Burma, Apr 1944; notes on service of 98 Indian Infantry Bde, Arakan, Burma, May 1944.

STOCKWELL, Gen Sir Hugh Charles (1903-1986)
Commander, 29 Independent Bde, Burma, 1943-1945; Commander, 82 West African Div, Burma, 1945-1946; General Officer Commanding Malaya, 1952-1954.

Personal memoirs and photographs, notes and subsequent articles on medical conditions, maps, and a note on Japanese casualties relating to Stockwell's command of 29 Bde, 36 Div, Burma, 1943-1945; official reports and histories of the campaign in Burma, 1944-1945. Also reports, correspondence, memoranda, speeches and photographs relating to Stockwell's service as General Officer Commanding Malaya, 1952-1954.

TALBOT, Maj Gen Dennis Edmund Blaquiere (1908-1994)
Commander, 18 Infantry Bde and 99 Gurkha Infantry Bde, Malaya, 1953-1955.

Papers, 1940-1956, including report on the military situation in Malaya by Lt Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell, 1953; training instructions, background intelligence reports, operation instructions, correspondence and notes for talks and lectures, Malaya, 1953-1955; report on demonstration of field defences in atomic warfare, Malaya, 1954; handing over notes, Malaya, 1955; situation reports from Maj J E Heelis, 99 Infantry Gurkha Bde HQ, Malaya, 1955-1956.

TULL, Wg Cdr Thomas Stuart (1914-1982)
Service in India and South East Asia with RAF, 1941-1946.

Papers, 1945-1983, relating to his service in Java with Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees (RAPWI), 1945-1946, including reports on prisons at Soerakarta, Amberawa and Solo, 1945; papers relating to the surrender of the Japanese Army, 1945; papers on clashes between Allied forces and the Indonesian People's Security Army (TKR), 1945; reports on the work of RAPWI, 1945-1946; typescript memoir, 'Mission to Java', written by Tull 1980-1981, relating to his career 1938-1946.

TYACKE, Maj Gen D N H (b 1915)
Service with Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, India and Burma, 1943-1946.

Extracts from his memoirs, relating to Chindit operations, Burma, World War Two.

VLIELAND, C A
Secretary of Defence, Malaya, 1938-1941.

Typescript, 'Disaster in the Far East, 1941-42', an unpublished account of his experiences.

WADE, Maj Gen (Douglas) Ashton (Lofft) (b 1898)
Member of Nos 1 and 2 War Crimes Review of Sentences Boards for German, Austrian, Italian and Japanese war criminals, 1948-1949.

Papers including report and recommendations by No 2 War Crimes Review of Sentences Board on Japanese war criminals, 1949, with alphabetical list of prisoners.

WORT, Brig George (1912-1984)
Seconded to Malay Regt 1939-1945; POW Changi Jail, 1942-1945.

Typescript history of 1 Battalion Malay Regt, compiled from sources in Changi POW camp Singapore, 1942-1945.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Miscellaneous 32: World War Two anti-British propaganda leaflets from the Far East.

Miscellaneous 36: US Naval Experiences in the North Pacific During World War Two: Selected Documents, published by the US Naval Historical Centre, Washington DC.

MICROFILMS

The Centre, in conjunction with the Department of War Studies, aims to collect published microfilms and microfiche of American official papers and other archive materials which relate to the collections and/or the Department's research interests. The following are published by University Publications of America and are supported by a hardcopy guide/index, unless otherwise indicated.

Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part 1: 1942-1945
MF 145-158 Pacific theatre

Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part 2: 1946-1953
MF 44-57 Far East

Confidential US State Department special files
MF 441-451 Korea, 1950-1957 (no published guide)

The MAGIC documents: summaries and transcripts of the top secret communications of Japan, 1938-1945
MF 388-401

President Harry S Truman's office files, 1945-1953
MF 427-433 Part 4: Korean War files (no published guide)

US Military Intelligence reports: Japan, 1918-1941
MF 463-493

OSS/ State Department Intelligence and research reports
MF 494-509 Part 1: Japan and its occupied territories during World War Two
MF 510-515 Part 2: Postwar Japan, Korea and South East Asia
MR 516-522 Part 8: Japan, Korea, South East Asia and the Far East generally: 1950-1951 supplement

National security files, 1961-1969: Asia and the Pacific
MF 523-532 John F Kennedy, 1961-1963 (no published guide)
MF 533-547 Lyndon B Johnson, 1963-1969 (no published guide)

US Armed Forces in Vietnam, 1954-1975
MF 792-795 Part 1: Indochina Studies
MF 796-803 Part 2: Vietnam: Lessons Learned
MF 804-808 Part 3: Vietnam: Reports of US Army Operations
MF 809-812 Part 4: US Army Senior Officer Debriefing Reports

Transcripts and files of the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1968-1973
MF 813-824

Vietnam documents and research notes series: translation and analysis of significant Viet Cong/North Vietnamese documents
MF 825-830

MICROFICHE

Wartime translations of seized Japanese documents: Allied Translator and Interpreter Section reports, 1942-1946
MFF 6 (2212 fiche)
Congressional Information Service, Inc

Armed Services oral histories: Korean War studies and after-action reports
MFF9 (339 fiche)
Filmed from holdings of the Center for Military History of the US Army, Washington DC


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