Catalogue description "Official War Diary and Death Register": including brief account of move from Singapore...

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Details of WO 347/13
Reference: WO 347/13
Description:

"Official War Diary and Death Register": including brief account of move from Singapore to Thailand (with reference to work on [Burma-Siam] railway); journal of camp activity July-Nov 1943, with copy letters to IJA Camp Commandant; plan of camp; various death registers; and nominal roll of persons buried at Kando

Note: Of 668 prisoners recorded as dying in Tanbaya Camp, it appears the majority were buried in two mass graves in Sept and Nov 1943
Date: 1942-1943
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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