Wallet 22 - Correspondence and photographs related to training, commemoration of crew of 200 Flight B24 Liberator missing following the successful drop of Semut I reconnaissance party, and an account of Operation Semut III by party leader Maj William Sochon

Harrisson, Tom Harnett (Major, DSO, Reconnaissance Corps, British Army and Z Special Unit)

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Place	Asia: Borneo
Accession Number	AWM2016.38.168
Collection number	3DRL/6502
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	5
Object type	Papers
Maker	Harrisson, Tom Harnett Various
Place made	Borneo
Date made	1945-1947
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945

Description

Records relating to the service of Major Tom H. Harrisson, DSO Reconnaissance Corps, British Army. Harrisson was seconded to Z Special Unit, Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) and served in Borneo on Operation Semut 1 during the Second World War. This wallet contains records regarding awards to S.R.D. Borneo, articles written by Capt Eric Edmeades on the role and scope of SRD, correspondence and photographs related to SRD training, correspondence regarding the commemoration of crew of the 200 Flight B24 Liberator missing following the successful drop of Semut I reconnaissance party, 25 March 1945 and an account of operation Semut III by party leader Maj William Sochon.

The wallet includes:

- General reports, awards to S.R.D. Borneo, biographical material and general correspondence between Maj Tom Harrisson (code A1), Jonathan ‘Jack’ Tredrea (code T6), Capt Eric Edmeades (code E1) and Sgt Roy Dawson (code D7);
- Article by Capt Edmeades edited by Tom Harrisson on the role and scope of SRD;
- Correspondence regarding crew of the Flight 200 B24 Liberator missing 25 March 1945, Pilot Fl/Lt Graham Pockley and RAAF Ben Ellis, parachute instructor;
- Records and photographs related to SRD training and a report by Capt E.A. Edmeades on the role of SRD activities;
- Account by Maj William Sochon on operation Semut III.