Notebook relating to the service of Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 1942-1944 - Part 6

feeling that the count & Col

Kaffe consider that I left the 

money there deliberately or else

that I have been dishonest in

my handling of the cash.

As the sum involved is equal

to $ 1-1 yen (1/2) = £61 (sixty-one

pounds) I think some consideration

should be given to my civil

occupation of Banking when

in 19 yrs service I have been

held-responsible for very

large sums, and my army

record which contains NO

stigma in practically 17 yrs.

Further for my (who?)period

of service with the 2/26 Bn

Col Boyes always made

me responsible for all

matters concerning cash. Even

to the taking over and distribution

of the total Bn pay.

I have set out the above

in case I do not get an

opportunity of defending my

honour at some future date

and because time dulls

memories and the document

as it stands at present is

unnecessarily damning.

CTracey 

Maj

Comd 2/26 Bn

Shimo Sonkenrai

POW Camp. Thailand

(over) 20.7.43.

P.S.

I have since thought of an

incident at Ban Pong relating

to Capt Swartz's movements.

I placed a kit-bag in his

custody to return to the kit

dump if opportunity offered

and was told later (I think

before my party left B Pong)

that he had been unable to

get down to the dump and

that he had placed the said

kit-bag under the tarpaulin

covering a dump of personal

gear in the space between the

hut and road at the camp.

CTracey

Maj.

I travelled on train 3 to BANPONG

as most senior 2/26 BN officer To

Major Tracey, I have read the

above statement and to the best

of my knowledge consider the 

facts stated there to be true and

correct. G. Brian Ferguson

Capt.

R/ vLU3.

((?))

YAMAMOTO. Watch

KORIMA Ring

KIMURA

(*Page 190*)

Extracted from "Word from England"

by Lieut. Gen Sir Tomas Bridges