Miles, Edward Temple (Lance Corporal, b.1914 - d.1995)

Diary (and edited transcript) maintained after the fall of Singapore, when Miles was on Blakang Mati Island, after transfer to River Valley Road Camp on Singapore, and later on the Burma-Thailand Railway. Comments on murder of Chinese civilians, work, trading with natives, brutality of Korean and Japanese guards, comparisons of AIF and British Army, Allied bombing raids, and repatriation to Australia. Additional material: postcards between L/Cpl Miles and family, censored by Japanese; official and unofficial letters and telegrams to/from various organisations e.g. Catholic Welfare Organisation, Malayan Research Bureau; uncensored letters written on voyage home after release from POW camp at end of WW2; one letter written by L/Cpl's brother.