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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Malaysia"

PFalgateD1605.jpg
An air traffic control room in Malaya being visited by VIPs.
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CSearleROJ-170725-02.jpg
RAF Planning Chart covering Malaysia and Singapore

MPeadonAH1578531-160504-01.pdf
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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PCulkinJ17010162.jpg
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…

PWainwrightJE22040009.jpg
11 photographs from an album.
#1 is a house/fishing boat.
#2 is looking across the Straits of Johor or Tebrau Straits towards Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The building on the hill is the former state secretariat building in Johor called Bangunan Sultan…

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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B[Author]ParkerEv1.pdf
Titled Eric's Story it details Eric's life from birth in Liverpool. He joined the RAF on his 18th birthday in January 1942. Initial training was at Paignton then he was shipped to Canada. He failed to progress as a pilot and was transferred to a…

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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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LJolliffeFSW197221v4.pdf
Aircrew flying log book 5, for F S W Jolliffe, navigator/radar, covering the period from 8 September 1961 to 8 May 1983. Detailing his flying duties with 60 squadron, all weather fighter combat squadron and number 2 air navigation school. He was…

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LJolliffeFSW197221v3.pdf
Aircrew flying log book 4, for F S W Jolliffe, navigator/radar, covering the period from 4 December 1956 to 20 July 1961. Detailing his flying duties with 46, 141, 41, 60 squadrons and headquarters number 11 group. He was stationed at RAF Odiham, RAF…

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BJolliffeFSWJolliffeFSWv1.pdf
This is Frank's account of the events leading up to his ejection from Javelin XH836 and the subsequent time he spent in the jungle, before his rescue. These events occurred when he was a sqdn ldr nav/rad on No 60 Squadron based at Tengah, FEAF,…

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SYeomanHT104405v10017.jpg
Three verse poem. Malayan landscapes spur a reflection on human condition.

PWrigleyJ17040015.jpg
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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BRhodesG-KPayneAv1.pdf
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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PPollockHAJ16040008.jpg
Henry sitting at his desk. Behind is a map with a route from Saigon to Kelantang and Singapore marked on.

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PWainwrightJE22040011.jpg
Nine photographs from an album.
#1 is the Kowloon Ferry terminal, Hong Kong.
#2 is Mena Camp, Cairo with a pyramid behind.
#3, 4 and 5 are roads and forests.
#6 is a waitress with two plates of food.
#7 is some children, sitting.
#8 and 9 are…

SYeomanHT104405v10018.jpg
Three verse poem about death, despair.

BPonsfordPPonsfordPv1.pdf
A memoir of an airman's daughter.

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PWainwrightJE22040013.jpg
Seven photographs from an album.
#1 is a man with an orangutan.
#2 is a riverside scene in the dark.
#3 is the gopuram (entrance tower) of Sri Mariamman Temple, South Bridge Road, Singapore, captioned 'Indian Temple'.
#4 and 6 are the Ayer Itam…

AEbanksJ[Date].mp3
J Ebanks was from Jamaica and was a navigator in 571 Squadron at RAF Oakington, from where they carried out a number of operations to Berlin. He also refers to RAF Benson and time spent in Malaya. J Ebanks recounts, with humour, a number of…

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PHarrisJ1901.jpg
After completing 37 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 evacuating…

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AMasseyJI170520.mp3
Joan Ilma Massey was born in India where her father served with the British Army. She joined the WAAF in 1940, aged 17. She did her initial training at RAF West Drayton and worked in Whitehall for a time. After she was demobbed she went to New…

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PSouterKP2131.1.jpg
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 5 July 1939 and, after training, he went solo on the 31st July 1940…

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PLindleyK1801.jpg
Kenneth Lindley was born in Hillsborough, Sheffield in 1926. Before joining the RAF, Kenneth was an engineer’s apprentice, and often helped the Air Raid Warden by acting as a messenger. He recalls joining the Air Training Corps as a teenager. When…

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ADavisRC170818.mp3
Ronald was a solicitor's clerk when the war broke out and 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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