Letter regarding cessation of hostilities
Title
Letter regarding cessation of hostilities
Description
The letter explains what will happen regarding medical stores.
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Date
1944-08-08
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One typewritten sheet
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SMilsonGW937875v20004
Transcription
Copy of Letter No. A/150/11/8020 dates 31st December 1943, from H.Q. Malaya Command to Senior Officers in Command of Areas.
In order to avoid ambiguity after the cessation of the present hostilities, the Commander has directed me to place on record the following decisions he has found it necessary to make, in the circumstances of our captivity at Changi P.O.W. Camp.
(1) That it has been necessary to provide for the purchase of Medical Stores and comforts for the issue of rations at a higher scale than that provided by the Imperial Japanese Army, such addition being governed by the recommendation of the Medical Authorities of the camp, in order to maintain a reasonable standard of health and to save life in the case of seriously ill.
(2) That is has been necessary in order to provide funds for this purpose, which may be termed Public Funds, to make compulsory deductions from the cash payments allowed to officers and non-combatants by the I.J.A.
I am to add that it is the Commanders intention to do all within his power to insure that:-
(a) Officers shall only be charged on release with that portion of the cash payment, signed for by them to the I.J.A. which he has allowed to them month by month.
(b) Those non-combatants who have been recognised by the I.J.A. for the purposes of pay, shall not have any charges preferred against them, but that any cash issues made shall be regarded in the same light as the working pay issued to the remaining O.R’s in the Camp.
Changi 31.12.43
Signed. F.A.H. Magee. Major A.A.G Malaya Command.
[underlined] CERTIFIED TRUE COPY. [/underlined]
[signature]
Gp. Capt.
Comd. R.A.F. Personnel.
8th August 1944.
In order to avoid ambiguity after the cessation of the present hostilities, the Commander has directed me to place on record the following decisions he has found it necessary to make, in the circumstances of our captivity at Changi P.O.W. Camp.
(1) That it has been necessary to provide for the purchase of Medical Stores and comforts for the issue of rations at a higher scale than that provided by the Imperial Japanese Army, such addition being governed by the recommendation of the Medical Authorities of the camp, in order to maintain a reasonable standard of health and to save life in the case of seriously ill.
(2) That is has been necessary in order to provide funds for this purpose, which may be termed Public Funds, to make compulsory deductions from the cash payments allowed to officers and non-combatants by the I.J.A.
I am to add that it is the Commanders intention to do all within his power to insure that:-
(a) Officers shall only be charged on release with that portion of the cash payment, signed for by them to the I.J.A. which he has allowed to them month by month.
(b) Those non-combatants who have been recognised by the I.J.A. for the purposes of pay, shall not have any charges preferred against them, but that any cash issues made shall be regarded in the same light as the working pay issued to the remaining O.R’s in the Camp.
Changi 31.12.43
Signed. F.A.H. Magee. Major A.A.G Malaya Command.
[underlined] CERTIFIED TRUE COPY. [/underlined]
[signature]
Gp. Capt.
Comd. R.A.F. Personnel.
8th August 1944.
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Citation
HQ Malaya Command, “Letter regarding cessation of hostilities,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed May 19, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/55309.