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