Physical description

Green hard-cover with dust-jacket.The cover is orange and green with a red medical cross at the top and a drawing of wounded soldiers being assisted by medics, the title is below in black and the author's name in red.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'Edwin Appleton' [Handwritten in blue ink on the first page]
'Author's autograph' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]
'Happy Xmas 1957 / Edwin Dear / From Hazel.' [Handwritten in blue ink at the top of second page]
'With compliments, / Thomas Hamilton' [Hand-signed in blue ink on the title page]

Summary

A record of 'the work done by the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station of the 8th Division in Malaya and Singapore in 1941-2. Lieut.Colonel Hamilton wrote the diary in secret within the confines of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps at Changi in Singapore and at various points along the Burma-Thailand railway." - from dust-jacket.