Wood, Alan (Historian, Services Reconnaissance Department, AIF) Wallet 16 of 22

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Accession Number PR85/325.016
Collection type Private Record
Record type Item
Object type Papers
Maker Wood, Alan
Date made 1943-1985
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM315 419/118/030
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Period 1980-1989
Description

Collection compiled by Alan Wood in preparation to write the history of Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) commissioned by the Z Special Unit Association. This wallet consists of an account handwritten in pencil on a pad numbered eleven and twelve. Pad eleven contains notes on and extracts from Australian War Memorial documents on Japanese Secret and Military Police, SRD intelligence and reports on operations. Pad twelve continues notes on Mosstroops, takeover of SRD and FELO by BBCAU, investigation of missing personnel, and notes from National Archives of Australia files listing SRD survivors, status reports for Allied Intelligence Bureau sections, summaries of SRD parties - place, role and synopses, notes on Chapman's report on Rimau and the Japanese version, Jaywick, Hornbill, J Mission, Agas I, II and III.