Internment camps
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Diary of Kenneth Albert Watson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 406
Content Description
Diary written in the Argyle Street Camp, a Japanese internment camp for officers in Kowloon, Hong Kong, during the Second World War, covering the period 1942-1945. Comprises diary pages written in pencil; section 1 covering 1 Jan. 1942 - 31 Mar. 1942; section 2 covering 1 Apr. 1942 - 31 Jul. 1942; section 3 covering 1 Aug. 1942 - 9 July 1943; section 4 covering 25 Nov. 1943 - end of Feb. 1944; section 5 covering Mar. 1944 - Sept. 1945. Together with a typed transcription of the diary,...
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Diary of Thomas Taylor Russell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 408
Content Description
Manuscript diary written by Thomas Taylor Russell, Deputy Public Prosecutor in Perak, Malaya, captured in Singapore in early 1942 and interned as a civilian at Changi and Sime Road; a privately printed transcription reproducing Russell's diary; a typescript copy of the Double Tenth investigation and other publications from 1945 relating to Changi.
Dates:
1942-1945, and [2020]
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'The Whistle': manuscript periodical produced in Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 396
Scope and Contents
Subtitled, 'Leisure hour literature of D workshop'. Created by prisoners-of-war in Changi Gaol's D workshop, edited by Adrian John Clark, a British subject and, prior to his internment, legal adviser to the Federated Malay States government (died March 1944 at Changi) and secretly printed and bound in the Gaol Printing Shop. After the war, this copy of the periodical, thought to be the only copy in existence, was presented to Clark's widow, Marguerite. Approximately 34 pages, with hand-drawn...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Transcript of interview: Margaret Bryan, 2018
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 225
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2018
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
File
Various correspondence, 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/47
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander, 21st Army Group, on Churchill's visit to his HQ during the Battle of the Rhine, April 1945; Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen [British Ambassador to Belgium] on planning for Churchill's visit to Brussels, October 1945; Commander Stephen King-Hall, Chairman of the Hansard Society, telling Clementine about the work of the Society and also enclosing his memorandum "How to Save Democracy" on future British relations with the...
Dates:
1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Walter Neill: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9876
Scope and Contents
Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.
Dates:
1905-1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library