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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).

Copies of photographs and sketches relating to a 2-story black and white bungalow built in 1910 to the west of Singapore's Botanical Gardens. Corner lived there between 1929 and 1942 while serving as Assistant Director. It was designated a Conserved Building in 2008.

300 x 100 mm. panoramic view of Singapore in the 1920s by F. Hill-Cottingham.

This is a small file of letters discussing archives which Jarrett donated to the University of Malaya (7 sheets).

The file contains a list of correspondents, including A. H. Dickinson and Hugh Bryson.

This section includes archives received at a later date from Hugh Bryson and some items acquired directly by the Royal Commonwealth Society.

This section relates to specific statements contained in the extract from the original draft of Ivan Simson's 'Singapore: too little, too late; some aspects of the Malayan disaster in 1942', which forms RCMS 103/15/4/1. There is a list of correspondents, which includes Simson, Mrs. Muriel Reilly, H. Wiisburg, A. H. Dickinson, D. Gray, R. H. Oakeley, E. D. Fleming, Harold Fairburn and Hugh Bryson.

The file contains a list of correspondents, which includes Simson, Mrs. Muriel Reilly, H. Wiesburg, A. H. Dickinson, D. Gray, R. H. Oakeley, E. D. Fleming, Harold Fairburn and Hugh Bryson.

View of trees and foliage at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.

Records of the purchase and delivery of food, tobacco, medicine, clothing and other items (14 pages).

This diary records Bell's social life, interests, personal affairs and travels. It describes the latter part of his extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 in greater detail than RCMS 36/2/4 (509 pages).

Letters written by Fisher to Halford Mackinder describing his travels (circa 2,000 pages).

This is a copy of a detailed diary covering the fall of Singapore, Duncan-Wallace's imprisonment, and his liberation aboard a hospital ship bound for Madras (191 pages). The circumstances surrounding the diary's composition are explained in a preface.

Copy of a diary by Oppenheim describing the retreat of the army to Singapore, the city's surrender and his escape initially by sail boat to Sumatra, Sri Lanka and then Bombay. The diary is anonymous, but Mortimer Hay, who also participated in the escape, has identified its author as Oppeneheim, based upon internal evidence and comparisons of its manuscript with Oppenheim's handwriting. For Hay's account see RCMS 103/12/4.

This a large collection of documents gathered by Weekley concerning the organisation and administration of the camps; accommodation; camp discipline; relations with the Japanese authorities; work parties; diet, health and hygiene; food supplies, rationing and preparation; Red Cross parcels; the garden; recreation and leisure; the delivery of mail; and the repatriation of internees at the end of the war.

A pocket-sized album containing prints (130 x 90 mm.) of exterior and interior views of an unidentified bungalow standing in grounds planted with palm trees (?Ayer Manis, Tanah Merah, Singapore). Y30311B/26 shows Lillian Newton seated around a table in the bungalow with left to right: Susie Polglase, Rex Marshall and Frederick Hill-Cottingham.

50 x 75 mm.

75 x 90 mm.

This is a report of the findings of a commission appointed to accept evidence from internees who were arrested on 10 Oct. 1943, and tortured by the Japanese military police, in the mistaken belief that they had been involved in a raid upon Singapore Harbour. It is signed by S. N. King, Norman S. Alexander and W. L. Blythe. Two copies (7 sheets).

292 x 180 mm. Showing a dragon dance in progress on the Padang in Singapore on National Day.

An album of photographs, most measuring 205 x 55 mm, accompanied by a typed list, which has been reproduced.