Burma frontier service (1 Ergebnisse)

For biographical details of Dr R. E. S. Tanner, see the end of this description. Brown card folder (by The Parker File Co. Ltd, Rangoon), housing 105 items (confidential correspondence, memoranda, applications, advisory and information documents, reports, telegrams, newspaper cuttings) relating to Tanner's application and training for a Civil Affairs post in Burma, including material from the training course he undertook at the Civil Affairs Staff Centre, Wimbledon. The folder and its contents are in fair condition, lightly-aged and worn. The volume contains two copies of Tanner's typed 'Application for appointment to the Colonial Service', giving biographical and service information, and including among his referees 'For Service in Command (CRETE etc) | EVELYN WAUGH late RM c/o Maj-Gen. R. E. LAYCOCK Combined Operations HQ'. Also Tanner's handwritten 'Application for appointment as Staff Officer (Civil Affairs) | (Under A.C.I. 1426 of 1944). The first item in the volume, carrying the ownership signature of 'R. E. S. Tanner', is 'Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of Burma | London, 17th October, 1947.' Thirteen-page printed document published by the Government of Burma Central Printing Office, Rangoon, 12 November 1947. (No copies of this Burma printing on COPAC, and the only copies of the London HMSO printing at the British Library and Birmingham.) Also: 'Extract from Introduction to Burma during the Japanese occupation'. Authors: 'H. J. H.' and 'F. R.'. Duplicated document by the 'Civil Affairs Staff Centre (Far East Wing.)', dated February 1945 and marked 'Confidential'. Also: 'Vacancies in the Colonial Service open to Officers of the Indian Police, Burma Police Class I, and Burma Frontier Service'. Duplicated document by the 'India and Burma Services Re-employment Branch, | Commonwealth Relations Office, | King Charles Street, S.W.1', dated 1 January 1948. Also: 'Memorandum | Re-employment arrangements available to European officers of the Secretary of State's Service in India and Burma, and of the Burma Frontier Service'. Undated duplicated document by the IBSRB, Whitehall. Among other duplicated documents are fifteen legal 'Precis' from Tanner's course at the Civil Affairs Staff Centre, Southlands House, Wimbledon Common, totalling 120pp, each headed '(Far East Wing) | Legal', dating from between February and April 1945, most signed in type by 'H. P.' Also present are three examples of legal statements (by Ma Nan Yu, Paw Hmon and Maung Tha Byaw). Also 'The High Court of Judicature at Rangoon. General Letter No. 6 of 1946', regarding charging procedure, and document by 'J. W. Leedham [John Walter Leedham (1905-1992)] | District Magistrate, | (Resident, N.S.S.), | Northern Shan States, | Lashio.' Also a group of related typed documents:'Shan States Manual | Civil Procedure' (13pp); 'The Shan State Opium Order | Politicle [sic] Department Notification No. 37, dated the 10th September 1923.' (3pp); 'The Shan States Arms Orders 1924' (2pp); 'The Shan States Excise Order, 1925' (2pp); 'Mongmit State Tenancy Rules' (3pp); 'Motor Vehicle Rules' (2pp); 'The Shan States Gambling Order' (2pp). Also a printed 1945 pamphlet of twenty-four pages, issued by the Colonial Office, London, titled 'His Majesty's Colonial Service Post-War Opportunities'. The last item in the volume is a duplicated typescript of a study by 'A[lan]. A[rthur]. Cameron, Assistant Superintendent, Kodaung Hill Tracts', titled 'A Note on the Palaungs of the Kodaung Hill Tracts, of the Mongmit State'. Closely-typed over 49pp (the first 13pp foolscap 8vo, the last 36pps 8vo), with figures. (The original of this item was published in 1912 in Rangoon by the Office of the Superintendent Government Printing, Burma.) The correspondence in the folder includes: numerous items signed by G. E. Pennell, 'for Resident, Northern Shan States, Lashio'; several items from the Colonial Office, London; a couple of items from the War Of.…