Catalogue description General Sir Robert Mansergh GCB KBE MC

An important collection of mainly official records concerning his commands of a battery in the 144th Field Regiment RA (5th Indian Division) in Eritrea (March - May 1941), of 11th East African Division in Burma (early 1945) and of 5th Indian Division during the final stages of the Burma campaign (February - May 1945), the liberation of Singapore (August - September 1945) and the occupation of Java (October 1945 - March 1946), and his appointment as C-in-C Allied Forces Netherlands East Indies (April - November 1946), including a copy of the 5th Indian Division war diary, with related maps and documents, for the Battle of Keren and the surrender of the Italian forces in Eritrea (March - May 1941), narratives of the operations of 15 and 33 Indian Corps in the Arakan and Burma (April 1944 - May 1945), reports on the political and military situation in South East Asia Command and on the military administration of Burma and Malaya in the immediate aftermath of the war, postwar Allied intelligence notes on the Japanese Army and its conduct and planning of operations between 1942 and 1945, and a substantial series of files on various aspects of the Allied occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, September 1945 - November 1946.

Mansergh, Sir, Eric Carden Robert, 1900-1970, Knight, General

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• South East Asia
• Burma
• Netherlands East Indies
• Singapore
• Malaya
• Eritrea
• East Africa
• Java, Netherlands East Indies
• Arakan, Burma
• Keren, Africa
• Army personnel
• Second World War, 1939-1945
• Burma campaign, 1941-1945

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