Orders and correspondence

Place Asia: Borneo
Accession Number AWM2017.7.163
Collection number 3DRL/6502
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 33
Object type Papers
Physical description 33 Image/s captured
Maker Harrisson, Tom Harnett
Place made Borneo
Date made 1945
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 as party leader on Operation Semut 1 during the Second World War. This file includes orders and correspondence between Maj Tom Harrisson (code A1) , Sgt Charles Frederick Sanderson (code S3) and Cpl Charles Hardy (code H6).
This file includes:
Orders from A1 [Harrisson] to S3 [Sanderson], 2 July 1945;
Letter from H6 [Hardy] to A1 [Harrisson], Ukong, 10 July [1945];
Note: Padas and Limbang, to Tom [Harrisson], 29 September 1945;
Orders from A1 [Harrisson] to S3 [Sanderson], 2 July 1945;
Letter from S3 [Sanderson] to A1 [Harrisson], Bilong, 18-20 August 1945;
Letter from Sgt Mulang, Seridan, 25 August 1945;
Letter from Sgt Bolang, Boeyo, 23 August 1945;
Letter from Sgt Bolang, Kubaem. 18 August 1945.
Map: Position Japanese signalled, prepared for Austin, 21 August 1945.