Maps of the Layout of Bareo [Bario]

Place Asia: Borneo
Accession Number AWM2017.7.179
Collection number 3DRL/6502
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 6
Object type Map
Physical description 12 Image/s captured
Maker Harrisson, Tom Harnett
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 and served in Borneo as party leader on Operation Semut 1 during the Second World War. This file includes maps of the layout of Bareo [Bario]. The village, located in the centre of the Kelabit Highlands in Sarawak, Malaysia was used as Semut 1 Headquarters during the Second World War.
This file includes:
Map: Layout of Bareo, 20 September 1945;
Map: Residency Hill (Bareo), 20 September 1945;
Map: W/T Compound (Bareo), 20 September 1945;
Map: (A1's) Residency (Bareo), 20 September 1945;
Map: W/T Sulap of Europeans' Mess (Bareo), 20 September 1945;
Map: Europeans' Quarters (Bareo), 20 September 1945.