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

feeling that the Court & Col

3pm

Kappi 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 wks 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.

C Tracey 

Maj

Comd 2/26 Bn

Shimo Sonkurai

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.

C Tracey

Maj.

I travelled on train 3 to BANPONG

as next 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.

[[?]] VI 43.

((?))

YAMAMOTO. Watch

KORIMA Ring

KIMURA

(*Page 190*)

Extracted from "Word from England"

by Lieut. Gen Sir Tomas Bridges