This document contains the SPG House 'Spotters' Log Book (Record of air raids,enemy aircraft, 1940-1945; some notes on the SPG during the War, 1914-1918; a pamphlet about 'The completion of...

Date:1914-1946
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136G-01
Second World War War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Typescript Manuscript 1940s 1910s Books Pamphlets South Africa Ledgers Registers Diaries Notes Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) Union of South Africa Remembrance Completion of Saint Alban's Cathedral (Pretoria)

These papers include the 'Roll of Honour for King and Country - SPG Headquarters Staff ' c.1918; a 'List of Missionaries in internment in the Far East during world war...

Date:1918-1945
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136F-02
Second World War Reports War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Media and Communications Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s 1930s Statistics British India India China Japan South Africa Medicine Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia Ledgers Burma Myanmar Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) Missionaries Anglicanism Christianity British Malaya Malaysia Singapore Union of South Africa Madagascar Finances Publications Thailand Indonesia Brunei British North Borneo Dutch East Indies SPG Women's Missionaries' and Candidates' Department The Mission Field Working Conditions in Wartime Philippines

These are the minutes from The SPG Special Wartime Committee Minute Book 1939-1940. The minutes include discussion of the Society's finances, details of medical missions, records of missionaries in various...

Date:1939-1940
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136F-01
Second World War War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Media and Communications Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s Canada 1930s Statistics British India India Minutes China Japan South Africa Pakistan Medicine Australia Ledgers Registers Diaries Argentina Burma Myanmar Notes Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) Evacuation Repatriation British Malaya Singapore Korea Union of South Africa Madagascar Zulu Kingdom Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha British Guiana Guyana British Honduras Belize Windward Islands Grenada Saint Vincent Saint Lucia Trinidad and Tobago 1939 1940 SPG Special Wartime Committee Finances Publications

These narrative accounts describe missionaries' treatment in Singpore whilst it was occupied by the Japanese army. The account by Rev. E. H. Scott includes his internment at home, in a...

Date:1942-1945
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136E-01
Second World War War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s Japan Diagrams Prisoners of War (POWs) Notes Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) Refugees Anglicanism Internment Christianity Repatriation British Malaya Japanese Invasion of Malaya Singapore Fall of Singapore Torture Paintings/Drawings

These items contain a range of accounts covering aspects of the invasion of Malaysia and the interned missionaries' release. Though details of life inside the camps are scarce, references to...

Date:1941-1945
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136D-02
Second World War Reports War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s United States of America (USA) Japan Notes Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) Missionaries Anglicanism Christianity British Malaya Malaysia

These papers provide a narrative account of the missionaries' evacuation from Sarawak after it was bombed by the Japanese air force. Item number X1039, pt1.

Date:1941-1942
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136D-01
Second World War Reports War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s Japan Diaries 1942 Air Raids Refugees Evacuation Missionaries Anglicanism 1941 British Malaya Malaysia Rev. James Paisley Japanese Invasion of Malaya

This correspondence contains various missionaries' accounts of internment in Japan at the outbreak of war between Japan and the allied forces. The range of accounts reveals how conditions and treatment...

Date:1941-1945
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136C-02
Second World War Reports War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s Japan Prisoners of War (POWs) 1942 1945 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) Missionaries 1941 Repatriation

The Bishop's account of his four months as a prisoner of war in Japan, having lived there prior to his arrest. From his time in a Tobe police cell, to...

Date:1941-1942
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:73136C-01
Second World War War, Security, and Intelligence Colonialism and Empire Philosophy and Religion United Kingdom Correspondence Typescript Manuscript 1940s Books Japan Prisoners of War (POWs) Notes Anglicanism Bishop Samuel Heaslett Internment Christianity