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Title
Date(s)
- 1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
41pp
Scope and content
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