Wallet 24 - Includes several newspaper articles authored by Tom Harrisson

Place Asia: Borneo, Sarawak
Accession Number AWM2016.38.170
Collection number 3DRL/6502
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 4
Object type Papers
Physical description 20 Image/s captured
Maker Harrisson, Tom Harnett
Various
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 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 includes several newspaper articles authored by Tom Harrisson.

This wallet includes:

-Newspaper article, author Tom Harrisson, 'The Army of the Jungle Hole', The Sunday Express London, 19 January 1947.
-Newspaper article, author Tom Harrisson, 'A touch by blow-pipe is death in Borneo', The Sunday Express London, 26 January 1947 [3 copies];
-Newspaper article, author Tom Harrisson, 'The Silent Killers of the Borneo Jungle', The Sunday Express London, 2 February 1947 [2 copies];
-Newspaper article, author Tom Harrisson, 'Farewell to Shangri-la and the white man's friends', The Sunday Express London, 9 February 1947[4 copies];