Item PYMAN 6/4 - Diary, 1 Apr - 19 May 1946, including the reduction of forces in South East Asia Command

Diary containing daily entries by Pyman relating to the progress of Operation EPILOGUE, the reduction of forces in South East Asia Command and return of troops to their countries of origin and peacetime stations; plan for withdrawal from Netherlands East Indies; letter to Pyman from Japanese Gen Itagaki Seishiro thanking him for his assistance prior to departure of the Japanese from Singapore; arrangements for evacuation of Japanese Service Personnel from Netherlands East Indies; conflict over policy in Sumatra between Supreme Allied Commander AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten and Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA) Commander-in-Chief, Maj Gen Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey; précis of talk by Pyman on future policy in Java and Sumatra and the problems caused by the failure of the Dutch and Indonesians to reach a settlement; copy of letter from Dempsey to Pyman after his departure relating to their service together; arrangements for safeguarding the Anglo-Dutch oil refinery at Palembang, Sumatra. With map showing ALFSEA troop deployment up to 17 May 1946. 1 file