IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Newey
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: NEWEY, Lt Col Thomas Henry (1897-1983)
Date(s): Created 1943, 1945
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1897; served First World War with Royal Engineers (Signals); joined Colonial Postal Service, 1919; transferred to Malaya, 1924; Assistant Controller of Posts, Singapore, and commanded 1 Bn, Straits Settlement Volunteer Force, 1942; POW, Changi camp, Singapore, Feb 1942-May 1943; put in charge of 5 Bn, H Force during their work on the Burma-Thailand railway, May 1943-Oct 1943; returned to Singapore in Nov 1943 and became prisoners' representative in Changi; died in 1983.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies of papers relating to his internment as a POW by the Japanese, 1943, comprising account of the treatment of H Force during their work on the Burma-Thailand railway, 1943, written [for the Malayan Government] in 1945; notebook containing financial accounts and a register of deaths for 5 Bn, H Force, 1943; account of the experiences of 1 Subsection, H Force, Sep-Nov 1943, written in 1943.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: ED
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997