Box 6
Container
Contains 24 Results:
Diary: Typed Transcript, 1942
File — Box: 6, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
McDougall's entire internment diary covers the period from 5 March 1942 to 2 November 1945. The diary from the first year (5 March to 31 December) reviews the events from his arrival on Java and his narrow escape from invading Japanese troops aboard the Dutch liner "Poelau Bras." McDougall describes the scene and his feelings when the ship was sunk by Japanese bombers some 250 miles off the coast of Java. He also...
Dates:
1942
Diary: Typed Transcript, 1943
File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
McDougall's diary for the year 1943 runs from 1 January to 22 August with a gap between 11 April and 14 July.
During this year McDougall continued to work as a "dresser" in the camp hospital and enjoyed the special privileges consequent to his position. When the internees were moved in January to the new barracks camp in Palembang, McDougall describes the deteriorating situation. Food and...
Dates:
1943
Diary: Typed Transcript, 1944
File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
Muntok Prison on Bangka Island is the scene for this third year of internment. The diary runs from 11 January to 28 December.
Throughout this year McDougall continued his work in the hospital, even after a near fatal attack of cerebral malaria. Charitas Hsopital in Palembang was closed by the Japanese when the men were moved to Muntok and the nursing sisters were interned in the Women's Camp....
Dates:
1944
Diary: Typed Transcript, 1945
File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
The portion of the diary from 1945 covers the period from 5 January to 2 November when McDougall landed in San Francisco, California after three and one-half years of internment.
McDougall continued to work in the hospital and he records the numerous deaths until March of 1945 when the camp was moved to Belalau, an abandoned rubber plantation in Sumatra. After the move McDougall begins life away...
Dates:
1945
Correspondence Diary: Holograph, 1942-1943
File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
In this series of letters from 23 October 1942 to 11 July 1943 written from internment camp to his sister, Jean, McDougall writes of his daily life. The letters from 1942 describe the physical characteristics of Palembang Jail and the barracks camp at Palembang, Sumatra. He tells Jean of his concern for the family, of his own health, writing, and study.
Between March 5 and July 11 McDougall writes...
Dates:
1942-1943
Correspondence Diary: Holograph, 1943-1945
File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
This series of letters written in a small, paper-bound notebook from 14 October 1943 to 25 August 1945 was also written to Jean. Inside the cover is inscribed, "To whom it may concern: In case of my death please seal this tablet--UNREAD--and send to my sister: Jean McDougall, 659 South 11th East, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A."
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Dates:
1943-1945
Prison Camp Sketches
File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of fifteen small sketches, fourteen of which are of views of Palembang Jail, the other is a sketch of the interior of the living quarters at the Barracks Camp.
Dates:
circa 1900-1960
Notebooks
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9-13
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
Notebooks kept by William Henry McDougall, Jr. while in internment, probably from 1942 and 1943 as little study was done after the camp was moved to Muptok Prison. The notebooks include three tablets concerned with Malay language lessons from Palembang Jail, 1942; notes on the Dutch East Indies, especially concerning oil, tin and other resources as well as notes on the oil business also from Palembang; notes on journalism and religion included with a glossary of Dutch verbs; notes on China; and...
Dates:
circa 1900-1960
Diary of Burt Smallwood: Holograph, 1942
File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
This small paperbound notebook was originally used for tabulated listings of some kind. Smallwood, a British prisoner, wrote in pencil either over or around these other entries. The diary covers the period from 4 February to 22 July 1942.
Smallwood writes the story of his capture when the Japanese finally captured and boarded the ship "Mata Hari" off Muntok on 15 February 1942. He was interned with...
Dates:
1942
Journal of Eric H. Germann: Holograph, 1942
File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
Covering the period of February 12 to 14, 1942, Germann's journal is written in pencil over or around entries on two pages taken from a Dutch record book.
Germann, an American brewer working in Singapore, writes about leaving Singapore in company with about 250 other refugees aboard the "Vyner-Brooke." He describes the daily events and some of the people aboard ship. The "Vyner Brooke" was one of a...
Dates:
1942