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Looking towards a lake surrounded by trees and foliage.

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Looking towards a lake surrounded by trees and foliage.

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

Scope and Contents The following documents are copied into appendices:1 Reply, dated 26 Feb 1826, from the ministers of Siam. 10 pages 2 Memorial, dated 2 Jan 1826, to the ministers of Siam. 2 pages 3 Memorial to the ministers of Siam 10 Jan 1826. 2 pages 4 Note to the ministers of Siam. 16 Jan 1826. 1 page5 Memorial to the ministers of Siam. 19 Jan 1826. 2 pages 6 Letter. 4 pages 7 Suggestions respecting Siamese negotiations, 31 Jan 1826. 4 pages...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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This file contains a note by Hugh Bryson on the rationing of rice in the civilian internment camps during 1945, a note by C.E. Collinge recording the services of the civilian internment camps' Men's Representatives, a letter regarding the Oxford Colonial Records Project, and an alphabetical list of guests for an Association of British Malaya dinner on 13 Feb. 1946 (5 sheets).

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Botanical Garden, Singapore?

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The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, art work, maps and books.

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Contains the article 'Women's green hell of Singapore' reporting on the experience of female internees (3 sheets).

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Contains the article 'No kid gloves for Japan' discussing the treatment of military and civilian internees by the Japanese (6 sheets).

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Contains the article, 'Dramatic highlights of liberation' (6 sheets).

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Master of Arts dissertation submitted to the Department of History, Royal Holloway, London University.

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274 x 206 mm. View looking across lawns and paths near the lake in the Botanical Gardens. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert & Co.

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269 x 207 mm. View looking down on Keppel or New Harbour near Singapore, with a Malay village in the foreground and the chimneys of the tin smelting works visible in the distance. For a view taken from the same position some years earlier, see BAM 1/8. Photograph probably by Lambert & Co.

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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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Loose photographs measuring approximately 160 x 110 mm, 240 x 90 mm and 170 x 110 mm.

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Correspondence concerning the spread of communism, the outbreak of the Malayan Emergency, intelligence and the security situation, and the Malayan police between A.H. Dickinson, Rene Onraet, H. Fairburn, G.C. Madoc, James Robinson, Nigel Morris, Thomas Lloyd, and Hugh Bryson. The file also includes the article, Rene Onraet, ‘Building the Special Branch’, ‘The Straits Times’, 18 Sept. 1950 (50 sheets).

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105 x 70 mm. Where Lillian's dancing school was located.

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105 x 70 mm. Where Lillian's dancing school was located.

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A preliminary report produced by the internees outlining how the civilian camps were administered by successive Japanese authorities between Feb. 1942 and Aug. 1945. It discusses living conditions, rationing, diet, health and hygiene (10 sheets).

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A memoir of Isabella Bain (née Lascelles-Ford), who travelled to Singapore in 1908 to marry the medical officer Dr Malcolm Rattray. She was interned at Changi civilian internment camp for two years during the Second World War, and later married the colonial administrator N.K. Bain. The file includes correspondence between the author of the memoir Kathleen E. Scharff and Hugh Bryson (11 sheets).

Scope and Contents After the outbreak of the Second World War, James D.C. Noble volunteered for military service in Sept. 1939. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders with the rank of second lieutenant on 14 Oct. 1940 and sailed to Malaya, where he fought with its second battalion against the Japanese. Noble was captured following the fall of Singapore on 15 Feb. 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in Japanese prisoner of war camps, which included work upon the Thailand Railway. Noble recorded...

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The diary covers the period from Feb. to Apr. 1942 when Noble was interned in Changi. Appended is the transcript of a letter to the Commanding Officer of the POW Camp, Chunkai, Thailand, from Nov. 1942, concerning officers being required to do manual labour (13 pages).

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Numbers 1-14.