Item HUTTON, TJ 3/1/8 - Copy letters, 1955, to official historian Major General Stanley Kirby, on operations in Burma (Myanmar) in 1942

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HUTTON, TJ 3/1/8

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Copy letters, 1955, to official historian Major General Stanley Kirby, on operations in Burma (Myanmar) in 1942

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  • 1955 Oct 7 - 1955 Dec 1 (Creation)

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5pp

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Typescript photocopies of letters to Maj Gen Stanley Woodburn Kirby, Historical Section Cabinet Office, from Maj Gen David Tennant Cowan and Maj Gen Henry Lowrie Davies, relating to Hutton's role in events leading to the fall of Rangoon, Burma, to Japanese forces; also typescript photocopy of notes of an interview between Gen Kirby and Colonel Ogrill, 1 Dec 1955, discussing the demolition of the Sittang Bridge, Burma, by 17 Indian Div, 23 Feb 1942. 5pp.

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