'Changi diary', 15 Feb. 1942-7 Sept. 1945, by Captain Harry Ernest Jessup, kept as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Singapore

MLMSS 2799
MAV/FM4/7031

fonds

15 Feb. 1942-7 Sept. 1945

422719

Microfilm : CY 2314 (MLMSS 2799)

1 volume of textual material
1 microfilm reel of textual records - 35mm

Captain Jessup, staff officer at 8 Division Headquarters, A.I.F., was on the Intelligence staff of Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett and gave evidence at his Royal Commission of Inquiry, 1945

1. 'Changi Diary', 15 Feb. 1942 - 7 Sep. 1945, kept as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Singapore. Abridged typescript with ms. corrections. (Call no. MLMSS 2799. Issue microfilm copy at CY 2314)

2. 'Changi Diary', 7 Mar. 1944 - 7 Sept. 1945 (frames 1-174); Items relating to the Prisoner-of War Camp, Changi, Singapore, 15 Feb. 1942 - 31 Aug. 1945 (frames 175-200). (Call No. MAV/FM4/7031. Original manuscript papers lent for copying, Feb. 1978)

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-601C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Original papers were held in private ownership when lent for microfilm copying in Feb. 1978.
Other copies of the abridged typescript version are held by the National Library of Australia (MS 3924) and by Deakin University Library, Victoria.
Jessup's original diary is now held by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra (ref: PR 00683).