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Description: | 39 ms letters to his sister and his aunt, the first two written during his service in the ranks of the 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers on the Western Front (October 1917 - May 1918), the remainder during his service initially as a constable but later as a Detective Sub Inspector, in the Shanghai Municipal Police (August 1919 - January 1930), with many interesting details and opinions about his working conditions, his occasional employment on military intelligence duties, the prevalence of prostitution and drug addiction in Shanghai and his travels elsewhere in the Far East, as well as forceful expressions of his very low regard for the Chinese and of his disenchantment with the British community in the Far East; together with a few official documents concerning his employment in and resignation from the Shanghai Municipal Police (1924 - 1930), ts correspondence and presscuttings relating to his death in June 1939 when trying to resist efforts by Japanese marines to break up a strike at the Shanghai cotton mill where he was employed and the international repercussions of this incident (June 1939 - May 1940), and some printed ephemera.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2001-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tinkler, R M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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