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Information for those on their way home from the Far East and who are stopping at Adabiya, Suez, en route.
pamphlet, pamphlet
Accession Number

NAM.2002-08-8-15

Description

Information for those on their way home from the Far East and who are stopping at Adabiya, Suez, en route. Published by The Middle East Command, nd. Includes a list of clothing and necessities to be issued for the return to England. From a collection of 34 documents and press cuttings relating to Bdr Moss Simon, 77th Welsh Regiment, Royal Artillery TA. Part of a collection of material relating to Gnr Moss Simon, 77th Welsh Regiment, Royal Artillery, taken prisoner of war by the Japanese in Java on 8 Mar 1942. He spent the next three years in a number of camps, six of them in Gloduk prison and participated in the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway. Along with Jewish colleagues he took part in the building and consecration of the Synagogue at Changi Jail, about which he wrote an article.

Campaigns

World War Two, POWs Far East (1941-1945)

Events

Burma Railway, 1942-43 (World War Two, POWs Far East 1941-1945)

Associated collection