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74. Laithwaite to Monteath, 20 December 1946, ibid.
75. Excerpt from Hansard, House of Commons debates, 20 December 1946, col. 2343; clipping in Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/72, OIOC.
76. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, pp. 95–6.
77. ‘Memorial service for the men who died in captivity at work on the Burma–Siam Railway, 1942–5, December 18 1946’, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/72, OIOC.
78. Fujio Hara, Malayan Chinese and China: conversion in identity consciousness, 1945–57 (Singapore, 2003), p. 32.
79. Charlie Cheah Fook Yong, OHD, SNA.
80. Kevin Blackburn, ‘The collective memory of the sook ching massacre and the creation of the civilian war memorial of Singapore’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 73, 2 (2000), pp. 76–7.
81. Beatrice Trefalt, Japanese army stragglers and memories of the war in Japan, 1950–1975 (London, 2003), p. 25.
82. ‘Jap nationals in SEAC area’, 19 September 1946, WO208/3909, TNA.
83. SEALF to SCAP, 1 March 1947, WO208/3910, TNA.
84. ‘Japanese Surrendered Personnel in Central Malaya’, December 1946, WO 208/3910, TNA.
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86. Ibid., pp. 233–7.
87. Mamoru Shinozaki, Syonan – my story: the Japanese occupation of Singapore (Singapore, 1979), pp. 102–4.
88. Enclosures on BMA/CH/43/46, SNA.
89. Wee Hock Chye, Comfort homes and early years (Kuala Lumpur, n.d.) pp. 45–7.
90. Kevin Blackburn and Edmund Lim, ‘The Japanese war memorials of Singapore: monuments of commemoration and symbols of Japanese imperial ideology’, South East Asia Research, 7, 3 (2001), p. 336.
91. Kenichi Goto, Tensions of empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the colonial and postcolonial world (Singapore, 2003), p. 196.
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93. O. W. Gilmour, With freedom to Singapore (London, 1950), pp. 16–18.
94. Victor Purcell, Memoirs of a Malayan official (London, 1965), p. 303.
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97. ‘Notes for women proceeding to Malaya: 21st May 1946’; minute 8 June, 1946, CO717/149/2, TNA.
98. Vernon Bartlett, Go East, old man (London, 1948), p. 103.
99. J. M. Gullick, ‘My time in Malaya’, June 1970, Heussler Papers, RHO.
100. Bartlett, Go East, old man, p. 103.
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102. Nicholas J. White, Business, government and the end of empire: Malaya, 1945–1957 (Kuala Lumpur, 1996), p. 82.
103. S. K. Chettur, Malayan adventure (Mangalore, 1948), p. 178–87.
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105. Gent to Sir George Cator, 5 November 1946, A. J. Stockwell (ed.), British documents on the end of empire: Malaya, part I (London, 1995), pp. 271–4.
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110. Office