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,...

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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.

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The archive consists of unpublished personal accounts of prisoners of war held in Italy at the time of the Italian Armistice in 1943. The accounts variously detail the individuals' war service, capture and captivity, escape from captivity, and attempts to evade recapture with the assistance of members of the Italian civilian population.

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Includes: letters of appointment to posts and promotions (1918-55); war data (1946); Hughes-Hallett's naval reminiscences (1955); letter from the Admiralty on Hughes-Hallett's retirement (1955); articles by others; and narratives of British repatriates from Japanese prisoner of war camps (Nov 1945)

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Correspondence and papers concerning Operation Bridford.

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3 manuscript postcards signed from Higgins to Bryan Earle King [matriculated at Pembroke in 1924, latterly a Fellow in Law] sent whilst Higgins was a prisoner of war regarding his career after the war.

Scope and Contents Unlike other scrapbooks in the series, this volume opens with a series of photographs showing warfare on the front lines. These photographs capture prisoners, refugees, soldiers, tanks, and ammunition mules in various locations across France, including Ham, Arras, Peronne, Roye, Aveluy, Bapume, Mailly-Maillet, Hénencourt, Bouzincourt, Albert and Doullens. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor goes on to combine reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which...

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Includes correspondence from HMB's time as a prisoner of war.