Scope and Contents Administration files of the Service Arts and Technical Organization consists of: mixed correspondence to Percy Johnson-Marshall as General Secretary of SATO,1945 file of undeliverable letters returned to the General Secretary,1945-1947 file concerning "Reconstruction and the Services",1943-1944 correspondence with the United States Office of War...

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Correspondence to Percy Johnson-Marshall and Brigadier AD Bridge concerning a proposed staff branch of the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) at the base of the Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA).

Scope and Contents General: Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) file contains: SATO aims and objectives a map of clubs, groups and posts publication rejection for article on SATO entitled "Report on pre-release training for Malay and Burma commands" including comments on this SATO News for January, April, July, September and October 1945 ...

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Photograph of a Getah Jelutong (Dyera Costulata Hook) tree in a forest in [Southeast Asia] in the early/mid 20th century.

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Copies of the Service Arts Organisation (SAO) Information Notes No 1, August 1943 and No 2 January 1944, set of appendices for the SAO Memorandum November 1943. Copy of "Reconstruction Memorandum", laying down SATO's commitment to preparing for this.

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Photograph of a juggernaut car in which "Sod" is drawn from the temple to garden house [in Southeast Asia?] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a man using a knife to tap a rubber tree on a plantation in [Southeast Asia?] in the early 20th century.

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Photographic portrait of H[enry] A[alexander] Wickham, a British explorer and Founder of the Hevea Brasiliensis [rubber] Plantation Industry in the East.

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Portrait of an unidentified man, possibly from South East Asia, wearing a hat and holding a small rope trap in front of some trees and bushes in the early 20th century.

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Administrative details, course outlines, timetables and lecture notes for the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) 12th Army Polytechnic, South East Asia Command (SEAC). This organised pre-release training across Burma. Includes a letter dated 18 January 1938 to Percy Johnson-Marshall from the Royal Institute of British Architects, telling him that he had passed his examination in professional practice, and an outline map of Bengal.