Moffitt, Athol Randolph, Hon., CMG, QC (Captain, 1914-2007)

Collection of papers relating to War Crimes Trials, Borneo 1945-1946, and to the Sandakan POW camps. As a member of the British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit, and later attached HQ 9th Division AIF (Labuan) Captain Athol Randolph Moffitt was an Army legal officer assisting the investigations of war crimes against Prisoners of War (mainly Australian) by the Japanese forces and their collaborators in the Second World War. The records include material collected by Moffitt to write "Project Kingfisher"(published in 1989) and a copy of that book signed by Botterill and Short, survivors of the Sandakan Death Marches; an indexed typed transcript of Moffitt's war diary Sept 1945-Feb 1946; Japanese War Crimes Trial transcripts; original charts compiled by Japanese officers concerning the first Sandakan Death March; maps relating to Sandakan POW camp and the Death Marches;and contemporary papers titled " The Year 2000: Delayed Revelations and Questions Which Remain", and "General Sir Thomas Blamey and the Abandonment of the Project (Project Kingfisher) for a Paratroop Rescue of the Sandakan POWs in 1945" (concerning the book "Sandakan-A Conspiracy of Silence" by L.R.Silver, 1989)