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- Created 1940-[1955] (Produção)
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0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
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Born in [1896]; served with 15 London Regt (Civil Service Rifles) in World War One; joined Colonial Police Sevice in Malaya; transferred to Road Transport Department, Malayan Civil Service, [1935]; Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Malaya, 1942; escaped to Java after fall of Malaya, but captured and imprisoned by the Japanese; held in Mitsushima camp, a sub-camp of Zentsuzi POW camp, near Tokyo, 1942-1945; liberated in Sep 1945 and returned to UK; returned to work in Malayan Civil Service, [1947]; retired 1949; died in 1968.
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GB 0099 KCLMA Morriss Created 1940-[1955] Collection (fonds) 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Born in [1896]; served with 15 London Regt (Civil Service Rifles) in World War One; joined Colonial Police Sevice in Malaya; transferred to Road Transport Department, Malayan Civil Service, [1935]; Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Malaya, 1942; escaped to Java after fall of Malaya, but captured and imprisoned by the Japanese; held in Mitsushima camp, a sub-camp of Zentsuzi POW camp, near Tokyo, 1942-1945; liberated in Sep 1945 and returned to UK; returned to work in Malayan Civil Service, [1947]; retired 1949; died in 1968.
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1989 and 1994.
Papers relating to his civil and military career, 1940-1949, dated 1940-[1955], notably including typescript text concerning his service with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Malaya, 1942, dated [1945-1955]; photographs of Morriss and other POWs, Java and Japan, [1942-1943]; notes relating to his life as a POW, [1942-1945]; newsletters of the Java Fellowship, an organisation for families of RAF personnel missing in Java, 1943-1946; issues of Far East, the official journal of the Far East Section of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation Prisoners of War Department, 1944-1945; 'Publicity in connection with escaped, liberated or repatriated Prisoners of War', restricted circulation circular from General HQ, US Army Forces, Pacific, 1945; 'Homeward bound', pamphlet giving information about the 5th Replacement Depot, a processing camp for liberated POWs near Manila, Philippine Islands, [1945].
Arranged in the following sections: Malayan Civil Service; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and POW camp; liberation and return to UK; post-war papers and ephemera; second accession.
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 of the collection on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm.Detailed catalogue for the first accession available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room. The second accession has not yet been listed.
Mar 1997 Communications media Armed forces China Colonial administration Colonial countries Colonialism Dutch East Indies East Asia Imperialism Indonesia International conflicts International organizations International politics International relations Japan Java Malaysia Manila Military organizations Organizations Periodicals Philippines Photographs Political doctrines Political systems Publications RAF Volunteer Reserve Red Cross South East Asia State security Visual materials War War prisoners War victims World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) Information sciences
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1989 and 1994.
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Âmbito e conteúdo
Papers relating to his civil and military career, 1940-1949, dated 1940-[1955], notably including typescript text concerning his service with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Malaya, 1942, dated [1945-1955]; photographs of Morriss and other POWs, Java and Japan, [1942-1943]; notes relating to his life as a POW, [1942-1945]; newsletters of the Java Fellowship, an organisation for families of RAF personnel missing in Java, 1943-1946; issues of Far East, the official journal of the Far East Section of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation Prisoners of War Department, 1944-1945; 'Publicity in connection with escaped, liberated or repatriated Prisoners of War', restricted circulation circular from General HQ, US Army Forces, Pacific, 1945; 'Homeward bound', pamphlet giving information about the 5th Replacement Depot, a processing camp for liberated POWs near Manila, Philippine Islands, [1945].
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Sistema de arranjo
Arranged in the following sections: Malayan Civil Service; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and POW camp; liberation and return to UK; post-war papers and ephemera; second accession.
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Condiçoes de reprodução
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.
Idioma do material
- inglês
Sistema de escrita do material
- latim
Notas ao idioma e script
English
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descrição
Summary guide of the collection on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm.Detailed catalogue for the first accession available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room. The second accession has not yet been listed.
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- State security » Armed forces
- Political systems » Colonial countries
- Political doctrines » Imperialism » Colonialism
- Political doctrines » Imperialism
- International conflicts
- International politics » International organizations
- International politics
- International relations
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Visual materials » Photographs
- Political doctrines
- Political systems
- State security
- Visual materials
- International conflicts » War
- International conflicts » War victims » War prisoners
- International conflicts » War victims
- Information sciences
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- inglês