Record revealed
Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
Series
War Office: Allied Prisoners of War Hospitals, Registers and Papers, Second World...
Catalogue reference: WO 347
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WO 347
Most of the records in this series consist of admission and discharge registers, alphabetical sick registers and death registers, kept by prisoners of war. These are divided into three subseries: Nong Pladock Camp and its Ubon or Oubone...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 347
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Allied Prisoners of War Hospitals, Registers and Papers, Second World War
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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Most of the records in this series consist of admission and discharge registers, alphabetical sick registers and death registers, kept by prisoners of war.
These are divided into three subseries:
- Nong Pladock Camp and its Ubon or Oubone satellite, in Thailand
- Tanbaya Hospital Camp in Burma. This includes an account of the move from Singapore to Thailand, and a War Office PoW Casualty Section file relating to the registers, and an official war diary and death register of the camp
- Registers, numbers by book (1-50) of camp hospitals in Batavia, Osaka, Singapore, Hong Kong, and other camp hospitals in Thailand and Burma.
There is also an index for the books 1-50 (WO 347/14-59), arranged by surname. Each card/slip notes (in the bottom left hand corner) the book number and the page number - for example, 1/13 would designate Book Number 1, page 13. In this case, 1/13 would indicate page 13 of WO 347/14.
Books numbered 2-6 are contained within WO 347/15
The contents of each of these registers are diverse and complicated in arrangement, which has necessitated detailed collation in each. To assist searchers details of the collation are filed at the front of each piece.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files of the Medical Historian dealing with camps in Thailand and relating to Japanese PoWs, see WO 222
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- War Office, Adjutant General, Directorate of Prisoners of War, 1940-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 200 cards and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1988-2015 Ministry of Defence
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- All the records in this series were maintained by the prisoners, who used whatever they could come by to keep a medical record. It is conceivable that, at the end of the War, these particular records by-passed the medical historians whose materials appear in WO 222, and were diverted instead to the War Office PoW Casualty Section and various Allied authorities who were assembling data on those who died in the camps, and only came to light shortly before 1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14551/
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