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An air traffic control room in Malaya being visited by VIPs.
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RAF Planning Chart covering Malaysia and Singapore

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A booklet with a listing of former pupils that died in the Second World War. It includes a photograph of the deceased and a brief description.

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Three photographs, first is Jack standing outside office door, reverse captioned 'Kuching, Borneo 1964-65'.
Second is of a group in a bar, reverse captioned 'Kuching Borneo Nov 64'.
Third is of a group standing behind a table buffet, captioned…

MYeomanHT104405-190417-01.pdf
Details charges and trial of Carline Da Silva for giving assistance to Japanese secret police. Covers all 14 charges, lists witnesses and provides handwritten notes on testimony. Charges annotated with handwritten notes. Three printed pages and 25…

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Two photographs of the same group of men in swimming trunks at the edge of the falls. Captioned 'Stan, Fanhy, Myself &Bish'.

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Three verse poem. Malayan landscapes spur a reflection on human condition.

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Photograph 1 is a vertical aerial photograph of a city on the coast. It is captioned 'Georgetown, Straits Settlement'
Photograph 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of a town on the coast. It is captioned 'Jesselton, Borneo'.

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A description of their time during the war by their daughter. Her father joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in September 1940. He was captured by the Japanese in Singapore, 1942. He was released on 12 September 1945 and came home on…

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Henry sitting at his desk. Behind is a map with a route from Saigon to Kelantang and Singapore marked on.

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Three verse poem about death, despair.

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After completing thirty-seven Bomber Command operations during the war, Jack Harris remained in the RAF. In February 1949, he was posted to Singapore, where he joined 48 Squadron and undertook transport command services on C-47s. He describes…

AMasseyJI170520.mp3
Joan Ilma Massey was born in India where her father served with the British Army. She joined the WAAF in 1940 at the age of seventeen. She did her initial training at West Drayton and worked in Whitehall for a time. After she was demobbed she went to…

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Kenneth Souter was born in Sunderland. His father ran a business importing wooden pit props. Kenneth learned to fly at Cambridge, and his first air experience flight was on the 5th of July 1939, and after training he went solo on the 31st of July…

ADavisRC170818.mp3
When the war broke out Ronald was a solicitor’s clerk, then got a job with in Portsmouth. Whilst there he volunteered for air crew and went to London to join the Air Force. After about six months he was called up for training. He went on a…

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Vera was born in the Myrtha Tydfil area of Wales. Vera went to the grammar school at Chepstow before getting work in the cashier’s office at the Royal Navy Propellant Factory. After joining the Women's Auxilliary Air Force, Vera was posted to…

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Victor Stapley was born in Ilford in Essex, where he was fond of playing cricket. He left school at fifteen and worked at a tobacco company. Then Victor became a shipping manager, a job in which he had to book shipping spaces whilst not having any…

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A large building with many rooms and roofs at different heights. It is set in ornamental grounds. On the reverse 'Jahore Palace January 1946'.

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A clock tower in Penang, Malaysia.

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Photograph 1 and 2 are views of the falls
Photograph 3 is a view of the falls captioned 'Top of the Falls'.
Photograph 4 is a group of men is swimming trunks at the side of the falls. Captioned 'S.Ldr T. E. Jones enjoys it as well (Note hippie swim…

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A postcard of the railway station at Kuala Lumpur.

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Six photographs, first two are Jack with Bill Greenwood, reverse captioned 'Bill Greenwood and self, Borneo 1964-65'.
Third and fourth are of Jack with a group in a bar, reverse captioned 'Kuching Borneo 1964-65, "What is he on about?" Bill…

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Four photographs, first of Jack with Arthur Price sitting in a Whirlwind entrance, reverse captioned, 'Arthur Price & self, Kuching Borneo, 1965, 225 Sqdn'.
Second is Jack standing in the entrance to a building with an individual, reverse…
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