Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940-[1955] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Scope and content
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].
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.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1896; served with 15 London Regt (Civil Service Rifles) in World War One; joined Colonial Police Service 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 1977.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1989 and 1994.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Note
Compiled Mar 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Communications media
- Armed forces
- Colonial administration
- Colonial countries
- Colonialism
- Imperialism
- International conflicts
- International organizations
- International politics
- International relations
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Photographs
- Political doctrines
- Political systems
- Publications
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- War prisoners
- War victims
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Information sciences
People and Organisations
- RAF Volunteer Reserve (Subject)
- Red Cross (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.