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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:
  1. Agra Group, 1944-1945
  2. Lahore Group, 1944-1945
  3. Bangalore and Madras Group, 1943-1945
  4. Kirkee and Bombay Group,1943-1945
  5. Quetta Group, 1944-1945
  6. Sialkot Group, 1943-1945
  7. Imphal Group, 1943-1945
  8. 404 Group, 1944-1945
  9. 14 Army and 12 Army Group, 1944-1945
  10. 202 Group, 1944-1945
  11. 252 Group, 1944-1945
  12. Shillong Group, 1944-1945
  13. Roorkee Group, 1944
  14. Gauhati Group, 1944
  15. 253 (B) Group, 1944-1945
  16. Mandalay and North Burma Group, 1944-1945
  17. South Burma Toungoo Group, 1945
  18. Ranchi Group, 1945
  19. Delhi and Meerut Groups, 1943-1945
  20. Darjeeling Arts Club, 1943-1945

Dates

  • Creation: 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

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