Collection FREEMAN - FREEMAN, Capt John A D (fl 1941-1995)

Key Information

Reference code

FREEMAN

Title

FREEMAN, Capt John A D (fl 1941-1995)

Date(s)

  • [1990] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Typescript notes on the re-occupation of the Netherlands East Indies by allied forces in 1945-1946, including background information about the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945, and an account of events in Semerang, Java, 1945-1946, dated [1990]. The notes are based partly on Freeman's service with 5 Indian Div in Java, 1945-1946, but mainly on research carried out at the Imperial War Museum.

System of arrangement

single item

General Information

Name of creator

(1941-1995)

Biographical history

Commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1941; War Service Lt, 1942; served with 5 Indian Div, Java,1945-1946; hon Capt, 1946.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by Freeman in 1995.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

Papers of Gen Sir (Eric Carden) Robert Mansergh at the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, include a small collection of Freeman's correspondence (Ref: MD 1358).

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Aug 1996

Alternative identifier(s)

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area