Canadian Radar Detachment

Places
Accession Number MSS1589
Collection type Manuscript
Measurement 1 Item
Object type Manuscript
Date made 1944-1946
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 93/0472
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copying Provisions Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Description

Photocopied account titled `Canadians (radar) in the South Pacific', of Canadian Radar Detachment to Australia during 1944-1946, comprising of RCA, RCEME, and RCAPC personnel. Account compiled from official and private sources. Covers departure for Australia, Camp Ingleburn, duties and inspections at various installations around Australia, attachments to AIB and SRD, postings to New Guinea, Borneo, Philippines, Melville Island, and Batavia in Java. Mentions some duties after end of war, including killing of one operative in Java by natives. Mentions discharge from AMF and subsequent whereabouts of some of the men.