1. The Colonial Office: its policy in regard of officers who deserted immediately preceding the fall of Singapore

This memoir was submitted by Dickinson in response to a request from G. E. Gent, assistant under-secretary at the Colonial Office. The file includes Gent's letter and reply, and a letter from Dickinson accompanying the memoir.


2. Histories of the Second World War in Malaya

This section of the file preserves reviews, notes and correspondence relating to Noel Barber, 'Sinister twilight: the fall and rise again of Singapore' (1968); S. W. Kirby ‘Singapore: the chain of disaster’ (1971); Frank Owen ‘The fall of Singapore’ (1960); and John Smyth ‘Percival and the tragedy of Singapore’ (1971). It includes correspondence between Dickinson and Hugh Bryson, Noel Barber, John Smyth and Basil Liddell Hart.