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1922, 1922
Two couples dressed in tennis costume standing in a garden.
1922, 1922
View of the two couples featured in Y302L/94 playing tennis.
A Bathing Pagar, 1920 - 1925
155 x 105 mm. Fishing stakes in background.
'A football pawang', 1963
An account of how a football match in the Coleman Shield competition around 1910 was cancelled, because neither team would venture onto the field before the other, having been warned that it would bring bad luck.
A Japanese spy in Johor?, 1966-12-12 - 1968-02-09
Material relating to an incident reported by C. E. Collinge during the time he commanded the Armoured Car Unit of the S.S.V.F. While on manoeuvres in Johor in mid-1941, Collinge observed a Japanese army colonel whom he believed might have been a spy. The file contains correspondence between Collinge, Hugh Bryson, W. C. S. Corry and those who might have been able to shed light on the event. It also includes two photographs from Collinge illustrating where the meeting occurred (20 sheets).
A seaside bungalow amid palm trees, 1920 - 1925
150 x 105 mm.
A seaside bungalow amid palm trees, 1920 - 1925
150 x 105 mm.
A united service of thanksgiving for victory 1945. St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, 1945
Weekley's copy of the order of service (6 pages).
Anecdotes, 1963-11
Brief anecdotes on W.J. Smith of the Public Works Department, L.A. Allen, E.N. Taylor and A.R. Thompson recorded in a letter and note written by Hugh Bryson (2 sheets).
Archives of Malayan Associations, 1942 - 1946
These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.
Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).
Articles by Onraet, 1945 - 1959
Autobiographical note, 1903 - 1961-07
Memoir by A.R. Chancellor of his service with the colonial police in Barbados and the Straights Settlements (7 sheets), with correspondence relating to its acquisition. There is a second brief note entitled 'My two adventures with crocodiles', probably also written by Chancellor.
The file contains two photographs, the first of Chancellor as C.P.O. Malacca [Melaka], taken in 1905, and the second of a Melakan police constable in 1903.
[Beach Road], Raffles School, Raffles Hotel, Drill Hall, 1920 - 1925
300 x 100 mm. panoramic view of Singapore in the 1920s by F. Hill-Cottingham
'Brief notes upon Communism in Malaya', 1958
An account of Churchill's experience of Communism in Malaya from 1926 to the post-1945 Emergency (3 copies, 17 sheets).
Camp Purchases, 1944-11-18 - 1945-08-20
Exercise book recording the purchase and delivery of food, footwear, clothing, bedding, kitchen utensils, medical supplies and other items (47 pages).
Captain Maurice A. Cameron papers, 1886 - 1891
A diary and two official reports.
Cars and rickshaws parked in Raffles Square; Singapore, 1920 - 1925
105 x 70 mm.
Changi chimes, printed and published at Changi by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-03-22 - 1942-11-08
Numbers 1-32; 34.
Changi civilian internment camp: an impression of the male section of the camp in 1943, 1962
Two copies of a memoir outlining daily activities in the camp, which was given to Hugh Bryson by C. E. Collinge, the Men's Representative to the Japanese. Collinge himself received it from an internee, whose name he had forgotten (14 sheets).
Changi exile, 1961
A copy of a reflection written by prisoner of war J. Coutts Milne on 15 Feb. 1945, the third anniversary of his internment in Changi. It is accompanied by a letter to Hugh Bryson (14 sheets).
Changi guardian, (successor to the Karikal chronicle), printed and published at civilian internment camp, Changi, by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-03-11 - 1943-10-12
Numbers 1-208, 210-262. Sheets are missing from Numbers 75 and 100. Number 209 was withheld by the camp authorities.
Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, 31 May 1943, 1943-05-31 - 1945-05-31
The nominal roll documents each internee’s name, date entered camp, age, camp address, nationality and pre-war occupation. It is arranged in three parts: men, women and children. Evidence suggests that this was a working document, as it contains annotations in pencil and ink.
Sheets of press cuttings on the liberation of Singapore, originally stored with the nominal roll, have been moved to RCMS 103/12/22/6.
Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, June, 1942, 1942-06 - 1945
The nominal roll documents each internee’s name, date entered camp, age, camp address, nationality and pre-war occupation. It is arranged in three parts: men, women and children. Evidence suggests that this was a working document, as it contains annotations in pencil and ink.
Changi scene, 1942 - 1945
A mounted sketch of a male work party.