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2 items (illustrating coastal defence reconnaissance reports 2B and 5B submitted...
Catalogue reference: MRQ 1/47
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This record is about the 2 items (illustrating coastal defence reconnaissance reports 2B and 5B submitted... dating from [1923-1924] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MRQ 1/47
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1923-1924]
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (illustrating coastal defence reconnaissance reports 2B and 5B submitted by Lieut Col H R Brancker RA, 15 November 1924) extracted from WO 32/3622. (2) Map, in 4 sheets joined, of Singapore showing waterways, swamps, roads, bridges and railways. Insets show (i) Pulau Pawai and Pulau Senang; and (ii) Pulau Tekong. Reference tables. Index to bridges over the Singapore River. Scale: 1 inch to 0.5 mile. Printed at the Central Survey Office, K[uala] L[umpur]. Annotated 'Surveyed on a Scale of 4 Inches to a mile. This map has been produced by Photographic Reproduction direct from the Field Sheets'. Coloured, MS additions show the location of observation posts and battery positions photographed during coast defence reconnaissance, June to August 1923, at Johore Hill and Point. (1) Part of another copy of the same map, showing an area south west of Singapore town. A further copy of part of the map, showing an area around Tanjong Karang, remains in WO 32/3622.
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For photographs extracted from WO 32/3622 see CN 4/14
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 102 cm x 141 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from records of various departments held...
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...
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