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Personal correspondence of Tull relating to his command of RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) units in Ambarawa and Bandung, Java, mainly comprising social correspondence with other RAPWI colleagues, staff of the Red Cross on Java, Dutch civilian ex-prisoners, and social invitations, and including copy letter from Tull to Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 2 Apr 1946, thanking her for her visit to Bandung. 1 file, 81 items

Papers relating to Tull's service with Air Command, South East Asia, 1943-1944; official correspondence and situation reports and relating to his command of Number 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team based at Ambarawa, Java, 1945-1946, including papers relating to the Japanese Army in Java, Sep-Nov 1945, and papers concerning Indonesian nationalist organisations; papers relating to Tull's memoir entitled 'Mission to Java', written during 1980-1981 and covering his service 1938-1946, edited by his sister in 1983.

Translation of the report of the Parliamentary Commission (States General) Dutch East Indies (Printed by De Hofstad, The Hague, 1946). 48pp

Transcripts and translations of radio news and broadcasts on Java by British, Dutch and Indonesian nationalist stations, mainly in regard to the political situation in Central Java and civil unrest at Surabaya. Mostly in English, some Dutch and Indonesian. 1 file, 39 items

Undated text of lecture [by Tull?] entitled 'Operational records and statistics in Air Command, South East Asia' for the RAF squadron commanders' course, outlining the different reports required from the activities of squadrons necessary for operational research and intelligence purposes of higher commands. 3pp

Text of lecture 'Air force organisation and some administrative problems in this theatre, part 2-some administrative problems in this theatre', given to Army officers (lecturer's name not supplied), outlining the difficulties of logistics in India for RAF supplies, services carried out by the Army for the RAF, the use of air transport for the Army, the evacuation of casualties, and air supply by the USAAF to China. 6pp

Text of lecture 'Air force organisation and some administrative problems in this theatre, part 1-organisation', given to Army officers (lecturer's name not supplied), outlining the organisation of personnel, trades, units and formations in the RAF, and of the air forces in India. With appendices issued by Administrative and Planning Branch, Air Headquarters, India, detailing RAF trades, branches, categories of aircrew and aircraft, command organisation, air forces in India and Ceylon, divisions of responsibility between the Army and RAF in India, and including memorandum entitled 'Army/Air co-operation' by Gen Sir Brian Law Montgomery, General Officer Commanding 8 Army. 25pp

Ten years old, the history of the Indian Air Force (publisher not given), including articles on its operations on the North West Frontier, in coastal defence and in Burma. 30pp

File of incoming signals to Tull as Commanding Officer 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Java, from 6 RAPWI Control Staff, Batavia, Java, and RAPWI units at Magelang and Semarang, mainly relating to the defence and evacuation by Allied forces of internees in camps at Ambarawa, Soerakarta (Solo), Banjo Biroe and Magelang from attacks by Indonesian nationalist forces, and the supply of food and equipment. 1 file, 90 items

Report by officer of the 3 Bn 10th Gurkha Rifles, Bandung, Java, comprising part of the 3/10's newsletter, being an account of the battle between units of the 3/10 and Indonesian nationalists at Magelang, Central Java, 31 Oct-3 Nov 1945. 7pp

Report by officer of the 3 Bn 10th Gurkha Rifles, Bandung, Java, comprising part of the 3/10's newsletter, being an account of negotiations and clashes between units of the 3/10 and Indonesian nationalists in Magelang and Moentilan, Central Java, 28-31 Oct 1945. 4pp

Typescript report by Tull on operation SALEX MASTIFF, Central Java, 10 Sep-15 Dec 1945, for the protection, release and evacuation of RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees), particularly relating to RAPWI operations, liaison with the Japanese Army, and clashes with Indonesian nationalists at the camps in Semarang, Ambarawa, and Magelang. With appendices containing the organisation of 5 RAPWI Contact Team at Ambarawa; memorandum by Tull to 6 RAPWI Control Staff at Batavia, on the political and military situation at Soerakarta (Solo) Camp, 7 Oct 1945; report on supplies of food to Ambarawa and Banjo Biroe Camps during Oct 1945. 44pp Two bound copies

Typescript report by Tull on operation SALEX MASTIFF, Central Java, 10 Sep-15 Dec 1945, for the protection, release and evacuation of RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees), particularly relating to RAPWI operations, liaison with the Japanese Army, and conflicts with Indonesian nationalists at the camps in Semarang, Ambarawa, and Magelang. With appendices containing the organisation of 5 RAPWI Contact Team at Ambarawa; memorandum by Tull to 6 RAPWI Control Staff at Batavia, on the political and military situation at Soerakarta (Solo) Camp, 7 Oct 1945; report on supplies of food to Ambarawa and Banjo Biroe Camps during Oct 1945. 44pp Unbound sheets, identical to 2/11

Typescript report by Lt Col Frederick Henry Graylen Eggleton, Royal Welch Fusiliers, on the work of 6 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Control Staff, 20 Aug-31 Dec 1945, for the protection, release and evacuation of internees on Java. With appendices containing statistics on numbers of civilians interned on Java; schedule of action required on prisoners, food stocks and records for presentation to Japanese military delegates at Batavia; numbers and destinations of prisoners evacuated from Java; report on an ambush of a RAPWI convoy by Indonesian nationalists in Surabaya on 28 Oct 1945; report of the Medical Branch of 6 RAPWI Control Staff on the physical and phsychological condition and treatment of internees 41pp

Cutting [from the Rangoon Gazette?], relating to the fundraising efforts of the Moulmein Ladies War Charities Committee, Burma, in providing a mobile comforts van for British servicemen in Egypt. 1p

Article in the Financial Times, containing an economic analysis of Indonesia. 10pp

Manuscript synopsis by Tull of the lecture 'Air force organisation and some administrative problems in this theatre (India), part 1-organisation', see 1/1. 4pp

Photograph of camels, location unspecified. 1 photograph

Papers relating to liaison between Tull as Commanding Officer 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Java, and the Japanese Army, mainly relating to his instructions to Japanese Gen Nakamura, Central Defence Corps, Magelang, Java, ordering Japanese troops to retain their arms until otherwise ordered, and Nakamura's alleged complicity in handing over Japanese arms to Indonesian nationalists. With memorandum by Tull to Allied Headquarters, Semarang, 28 Oct 1945, commending the actions of Japanese Maj Satoh, Liaison Officer, in leading the defence of the prison camp at Ambarawa against Indonesian nationalists; papers describing size and location of Japanese garrisons on Central Java. 1 file, 20 items

Papers relating to the release of prisoners held by the Japanese Army on Java, mainly comprising correspondence between 6 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Control Staff, Batavia, and Tull as Commanding Officer 5 RAPWI Contact Team at Ambarawa, including an account by W Cdr Alan D Groom, 5 RAPWI Contact Team, on conditions he experienced as a prisoner at Ambarawa Prison between Jan-Aug 1945; report by Groom on his visit to Soerakarta (Solo) Prison, 30 Sep 1945. 1 file, 16 items