Indonesia and small wars in Southeast Asia-Post WWII?

[davidbfpo]

If anybody could please forward information regarding the military archives in London with respect to British involvement in Indonesia immediately following WW II, I would be most grateful.

Thanks
Jeff

Jeff,

The UK military archives is not my subject and so these comments are that. Some military records are at the National Army Museum, in London (mainly military journals); the political and government papers are the old Public Records Office, now renamed the National Archives, at Kew, London and depending what you are looking for in other places, e.g. university library special holdings, with general's personal papers.

I know General Gracey and his Indian division left Saigon for Indonesia. In some reading the fighting around the port city, Surabaya was described as very hard.

Do the Official History series cover post-VJ activity?

There maybe items in the Imperial War Museum, London and the RAF / RN museums.

Are there any historians who specialise in this period?