The Reverend G E Chippington

Microfilm of a lengthy ts transcribed and revised diary describing in detail his service as a Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment and subsequently the "British Battalion" during the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore (December 1941-February 1942) and as a prisoner of war in Changi and (in Thailand) Bampong; Kanburi, Chungkai, "tent camp", "mountain camp", 226K and "brothel", "swamp" and Tamarkan camps, describing the conditions, morale, (especially the altuistic spirit among prisoners), disputes with the Japanese over officers working, the physical disadvantages of working class soldiers, camp entertainments, allied air raids, his religious conversation and, on release, the sense of disillusionment at post-war society.

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