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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

MORRISS, Louis Arnold George ([1896]-1968)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Morriss

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: MORRISS, Louis Arnold George ([1896]-1968)

Date(s): Created 1940-[1955]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in [1896]; served with 15 London Regt (Civil Service Rifles) in World War One; joined Colonial Police Sevice in Malaya; transferred to Road Transport Department, Malayan Civil Service, [1935]; Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Malaya, 1942; escaped to Java after fall of Malaya, but captured and imprisoned by the Japanese; held in Mitsushima camp, a sub-camp of Zentsuzi POW camp, near Tokyo, 1942-1945; liberated in Sep 1945 and returned to UK; returned to work in Malayan Civil Service, [1947]; retired 1949; died in 1968.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his civil and military career, 1940-1949, dated 1940-[1955], notably including typescript text concerning his service with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Malaya, 1942, dated [1945-1955]; photographs of Morriss and other POWs, Java and Japan, [1942-1943]; notes relating to his life as a POW, [1942-1945]; newsletters of the Java Fellowship, an organisation for families of RAF personnel missing in Java, 1943-1946; issues of Far East, the official journal of the Far East Section of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation Prisoners of War Department, 1944-1945; 'Publicity in connection with escaped, liberated or repatriated Prisoners of War', restricted circulation circular from General HQ, US Army Forces, Pacific, 1945; 'Homeward bound', pamphlet giving information about the 5th Replacement Depot, a processing camp for liberated POWs near Manila, Philippine Islands, [1945].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: Malayan Civil Service; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and POW camp; liberation and return to UK; post-war papers and ephemera; second accession.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide of the collection on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm.Detailed catalogue for the first accession available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room. The second accession has not yet been listed.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1989 and 1994.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Colonial administration | Colonial countries | Political systems
Colonialism | Imperialism | Political doctrines
International organizations | International politics
Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
War prisoners | War victims | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
RAF Volunteer Reserve
Red Cross

Places
China | East Asia
Japan | East Asia
Java | Indonesia | South East Asia
Malaysia | South East Asia
Manila | Philippines | South East Asia
Dutch East Indies x Indonesia