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Imperial War Museum Department of Documents: 2019 Accessions

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  • Ronald William Fordham Searle (1920-2011), artist and satirical cartoonist: bound volumes (10) of 'Exile'/'The Exile', a handmade magazine produced in Changi prisoner of war camp, Singapore, featuring stories, factual articles and a variety of other contributions from many of the Changi POWs 1944-1945 (Documents.18741)
  • Eli Marsden Wilson (1877-1965), artist: diary written when he was arrested as a conscientious objector and sent to prison, incl details of the arrest in a mixture of English, Spanish and some French 1917-1918 (Documents.27323)
  • Jonathan Purnell (fl1985-1987), gunner, 4 South African Infantry Battalion (62nd Mechanised Battalion Group): ms diary with transcription, recording his National Service, notably training in South Africa, and operational service as a gunner in an Olifant Main Battle Tank and commenting on experiences of army life 1985-1987 (Documents.272020)
  • John Lindsey Newton Marshall (d2004), research chemist: documents incl photographs and S.O. books (4) containing ms notes, calculations and diagrams rel to rocket propellant research undertaken at the Armament Research Department (ARD) at Fort Halstead during the Second World War 1939-1945 (Documents.27368)
  • Douglas Mills (fl1942-1946), Borough Treasurer and accountant, Finance Department, Croydon Town Hall: letters (175) written by 50 employees of the Borough of Croydon who had been called up to the forces during the Second World War; Mills kept them up to date with what was happening to former colleagues, and with other news from back home, sending regular newsletter and magazine 'Calling Croydon' 1942-1946 (Documents.27322)