Regional Groups of the Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1945
Series
Identifier: PJM/SATO/B
Scope and Contents
Regional Groups of the Service Arts and Technical Organization consists of files of correspondence with the following regional groups of the organisation:
- Agra Group, 1944-1945
- Lahore Group, 1944-1945
- Bangalore and Madras Group, 1943-1945
- Kirkee and Bombay Group,1943-1945
- Quetta Group, 1944-1945
- Sialkot Group, 1943-1945
- Imphal Group, 1943-1945
- 404 Group, 1944-1945
- 14 Army and 12 Army Group, 1944-1945
- 202 Group, 1944-1945
- 252 Group, 1944-1945
- Shillong Group, 1944-1945
- Roorkee Group, 1944
- Gauhati Group, 1944
- 253 (B) Group, 1944-1945
- Mandalay and North Burma Group, 1944-1945
- South Burma Toungoo Group, 1945
- Ranchi Group, 1945
- Delhi and Meerut Groups, 1943-1945
- Darjeeling Arts Club, 1943-1945
Dates
- 1943-1945
Creator
Language of Materials
This material is in English
Physical Description
20 files
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
While posted with the army in India, during World War II, Percy Johnson-Marshall was General Secretary to the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) from 1943 until his repatriation in 1945. He received reports from, and corresponded with, the regional groups across India and Burma, including modern day Bangladesh and Pakistan. This correspondence was filed according to group and numbered sequentially. The files described in this series are those which have been recovered from the set.
Extent
From the Sub-Fonds: 0.5 metres
Physical Description
20 files
Archivist's Note
None
Sarah Higgins 17 September 2003
Sarah Higgins 17 September 2003
- Agra (India)
- Armed Forces
- Arts
- Bangalore (India)
- Bangladesh
- Bombay (India)
- Burma
- Burma -- Mandalay
- Chittagong (Bangladesh)
- Darjeeling (India)
- Delhi (India)
- Dibrugarh (India)
- Gauhati (India)
- Imphal (India)
- India
- Johnson-Marshall, Percy, 1915-1993 (professor of urban design and regional planning, University of Edinburgh)
- Jorhat (India)
- Madras (India)
- Meerut (India)
- Pakistan
- Pakistan -- Lahore
- Quetta (Pakistan)
- Ranchi (India)
- Roorkee (India)
- Service Arts and Technical Organization (1943-1946)
- Shillong (India)
- Sialkot District (Pakistan)
- Societies and Clubs
- Technical Education
- Toungoo (Burma)
- Training
- World War, 1939-1945
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk