Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- Created [1948] (Creation)
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1910; 2nd Lt, Royal West Kent Regt, 1935; appointed to Indian Army Ordnance Corps, 1937;Commanding Officer Ordnance, Ammunition Dumps, Singapore, 1942; died in 1985.
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA James Created [1948] Collection (fonds) 1 file
Born in 1910; 2nd Lt, Royal West Kent Regt, 1935; appointed to Indian Army Ordnance Corps, 1937;Commanding Officer Ordnance, Ammunition Dumps, Singapore, 1942; died in 1985.
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.
Typescript account of his experiences during the Japanese attack on Singapore and his subsequent escape to Sumatra, Jan-Feb 1942, written in [1948].
1 file
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Date of compilation: Aug 1996
Armed forces British Army Documents Dutch East Indies Humanitarian law Indian Army Indonesia Information sources International conflicts International relations Japanese Army Military organizations Netherlands East Indies Nonbook materials Occupied territories Organizations Singapore South East Asia State security Sumatra War War prisoners War victims World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typescript account of his experiences during the Japanese attack on Singapore and his subsequent escape to Sumatra, Jan-Feb 1942, written in [1948].
System of arrangement
1 file
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
English
Finding aids
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Access points
Subject access points
- State security » Armed forces
- Documents
- Humanitarian law
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Documents » Nonbook materials
- Humanitarian law » Occupied territories
- Organizations
- State security
- International conflicts » War
- International conflicts » War victims » War prisoners
- International conflicts » War victims
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Institution identifier
Language(s)
- English