Item TULL 3/1 - Memoir by Tull, 'Mission to Java', [1982], chiefly relating to his service with 5 RAPWI, 1945-1946

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