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Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
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Series
War Office: British and Allied Land Forces, South East Asia: War Diaries, Second...
Catalogue reference: WO 172
What's it about?
WO 172
This series contains the daily records of events, reports on operations, intelligence summaries, etc, of formations and units of British forces, including East and West African Forces, who served in Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India and Malaya.Due...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 172
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: British and Allied Land Forces, South East Asia: War Diaries, Second World War
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the daily records of events, reports on operations, intelligence summaries, etc, of formations and units of British forces, including East and West African Forces, who served in Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India and Malaya.
Due to enemy action in Malaya and Hong Kong, many of the original war diaries were lost for the period 1939 to 1942, but, for the majority of formations and units, diaries were produced in narrative form at a later date, and these are included.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
War diaries of formations and units stationed in India, including those of the Indian Army, were not kept separately, and will be found under the heading 'Burma'.
The series is arranged by theatres of operations, initially covering the period 1939-1942, then by years from 1943 onward.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 11401 files and volumes
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14379/
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