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Numbers 1-14.

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

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Showing a lake surrounded by trees and foliage.

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Showing a lake surrounded by trees and foliage.

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274 x 206 mm. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert & Co.

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Extracted from the ‘Changi Guardian’, no. 19, 1 Apr. 1942 (3 pages).

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23 pages.

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The file also includes two quotations from the 'Illustrated London News' (5 sheets).

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Draft of an undated letter objecting to Thomson's treatment of the fall of Malaya in his book 'Life and Times of Winston Churchill', which according to Churchill, neglected the contribution to its defence made by Malaya's Volunteers and other civil defence forces.

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Two letters from Hugh Bryson to Harry Miller commenting upon incidents recorded in Miller's manuscript describing internment (2 sheets).

Scope and Contents The collection includes original letters from Le Fleming to his mother Florence, known in the family as 'FM’. Subjects include Le Fleming’s travel to Malaya and within the region for work and leisure; descriptions of his duties and colleagues at the FMSR in Ipoh and Kula Lumpur; friends and social life; painting and design; holidays in Europe; the Malay and Chinese people; Malaya’s landscape, butterflies, botany and wildlife; training with the FMS Volunteer forces; and the deteriorating...

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These letters are largely a record of Cameron's domestic arrangements and social life, with some mention of his work inspecting or supervising the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, lighthouses, and the harbour and defences of Singapore. They also briefly describe his appointment as president of a commission set up in 1890-91 to advise upon the supply of labour. The letters from 1891 narrate a visit to China and Japan (circa 250 sheets).

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Letters containing Ursula Holttum's account of her return to Singapore after leaving it in 1940 soon after the outbreak of the Second World War (28 sheets).

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105 x 145 mm.

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105 x 145 mm.

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292 x 195 mm. Showing dancers costumed as lions in the National Day Parade.

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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).

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Lists compiled by the Malayan and Far Eastern Association of Australia, and the Malayan Research Bureau, Australia:

1. Lists 1-4, 27 May, 1943.

2. List 5, Jan. 1944 (3 copies).

3. List A, July 1944 (supplement to List 5).

4. List B, Apr. 1945 (second supplement to List 5).

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140 x 90 mm. A view looking down river, with barges moored at the Boat Quay in the foreground.

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

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Personal memoir of Hillier's time in Malacca [Melaka] from 1888 to the First World War, describing the social life and customs of its European, Malay and Chinese inhabitants, education, religion, health, law and order, shipping and economic conditions.

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19 sheets.

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15 sheets.

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135 x 85 mm.

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Correspondence relating to the response of the Malayan police to racial and religious riots in Singapore. The riots were inspired by a court ruling in the custody battle over Maria Hertogh, which was won by her Dutch birth parents over her Muslim Malay adoptive parents, who had educated her as a Muslim (16 sheets).