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The Chindits, part one (Statesman Press), booklet containing accounts of Chindit operations in Burma, reproduced from newspaper reports during Mar 1944, and including announcement of the death of Maj Gen Orde Charles Wingate, General Officer Commanding 3 Indian Infantry Div (Chindits), and a tribute to Wingate by Lt Gen William Joseph Slim, General Officer Commanding 14 Army. 24pp

Typescript copy of the 'Despatch on air operations (including a report on the expansion and development of the Air Forces in India), 21 Jun 1943-15 Nov 1943' by ACM Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, Air Officer Commanding Air Forces in India, including strategic and tactical bombing and other operations of Bengal Command; operations of 222 Group, Ceylon, and 225 Group, Bangalore; provision of maintenance, signals and air transport; expansion of the Indian Air Force. With appendices of aircraft types and number; copy of signal from Peirse to ACM Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Chief of the Air Staff [12 Nov 1943], on the need for latest types of Supermarine Spitfire for operations in the Far East due to the inadequate performance of the Hawker Hurricane; disposition of squadrons of the 10th USAAF; bomber, fighter and reconnaissance sorties flown in India and Burma; disposition of squadrons in the Bengal and Ceylon areas. 105pp

Front cover of Weekly Intelligence Summary, number 11, of Headquarters, 23 Indian Div, Batavia, Java. 1p

File of daily situation reports from Tull as Commanding Officer 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Java, to 6 RAPWI Control Staff, Batavia, Java, mainly informing of civil unrest in Central Java and incidences in 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. 1 file, 61 items

Manuscript of unnumbered chapter entitled 'Bandoeng' of Tull's memoir 'Mission to Java', relating to his service commanding a unit of RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) at Bandung, West Java, 1945-1946. 5pp

Draft typescript of chapter 14 entitled 'Domestic affairs in Ambarawa' of Tull's memoir 'Mission to Java', relating to his service commanding 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Central Java, 1945. With manuscript annotations by Tull. 11pp

Draft typescript of chapter 17 entitled 'Spotlight on Ambarawa' of Tull's memoir 'Mission to Java', relating to his service commanding 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Central Java, 1945, and attacks on the Ambarawa camps by Indonesian nationalists. With manuscript annotations by Tull. 16pp

Draft typescript of chapter 21 entitled 'Java and the world' of Tull's memoir 'Mission to Java', relating to his service commanding 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team at Ambarawa, Central Java, 1945, and international reaction to uprisings on Java by Indonesian nationalists. With manuscript annotations by Tull. 10pp

Part of untitled weekly intelligence summary [probably of Headquarters 23 Indian Div at Batavia, Java] relating to the Indonesian nationalist government on Java and the TKR (Tentara Keamanan Rakyat, People's Security Army), including an outline of the government's political and military structure and membership; organisation, order of battle, location and strength of the TKR; intelligence on the Barisan Pelopor and Angkaten Pemoeda Indonesia (API) armed Indonesian nationalist organisations, Japanese subversive organisations, possible Indonesian nationalist air power and Indonesian nationalist propaganda. 24pp

Part of untitled weekly intelligence summary [probably of Headquarters 23 Indian Div at Batavia, Java], relating to the Indonesian nationalist government on Java and the TKR (Tentara Keamanan Rakyat, People's Security Army), including information on the organisation, order of battle, location and strength of the TKR; intelligence on the Pesindo, Pelopors, Angkaten Pemoeda Indonesia (API), other armed Indonesian nationalist organisations, the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), and Indonesian nationalist propaganda; locations and strength of Japanese Army garrisons in West Java. 27pp

Issue of the Dutch language newspaper De Courant, containing articles on events and political developments in Bandung, Java. 4pp

Letter to Tull in India from [his sister?] Helen in London, informing of family news. 1p

Letter from Tull to F V Donnison of Didcot, Berkshire, regarding Donnison's planned visit to Java, and meeting with Dr J H Van Mook, the former Deputy Governor General. 1p

Letter from Tull to Flight Lt Ronnie Trigg, Liaison Officer, Magelang, Java, informing him of Trigg's transfer to duties at Ambarawa. 1p

Hanthawaddy and Rangoon city districts, Burma, map published by the Air Survey Department. Second edition, scale 1:63,360.

Memorandum entitled 'Air Command South East Asia, its origin and development since 7 Dec 1941', outlining organisation of air forces in India, major operations, and types and numbers of aircraft deployed. Draft copy with manuscript annotations by Tull. 11pp

Typescript entitled 'Mission to Java', being Tull's memoir of 1938-1946, including accounts of his early career as a District Officer, Punjab, in the Indian Civil Service; as a staff officer at Air Command South East Asia, 1943-1944; service as RAF Liaison Officer with Force 136 during operation DRACULA for the capture of Rangoon, Burma, 1945. With detailed account of his service commanding 5 RAPWI (Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) Contact Team during operation SALEX MASTIFF, Central Java, 1945, for the protection, release and evacuation of prisoners of the occupying Japanese forces; extracts from his official papers relating to RAPWI; clashes between Allied Forces and Indonesian nationalists at the camps in Semarang, Ambarawa, and Magelang; his command of RAPWI unit in Bandung, 1946. With map of Java and two photocopied photographs of Tull and colleagues, 1945. 186pp

Mess bill for alcohol. 1p

Typescript minutes of meeting of the 'JPS' [Dutch organisation to administer prison camps?] concerning the management of camps in Bandung, Java. 3pp