| Description Of Item | The photographs are of Woodruff's time in Singapore [British Malaya] and Malaya (Malaysia) before the Japanese invasion. The captioned photographs depict the mess; a Rotary Club meeting; 10 AGH [Australian General Hospital] accommodated in Malacca Hospital [Malaysia], June 1941 (used in his autobiography); local wildlife; local houses, people and farming; blood bank laboratory; patients; Club Padang in Singapore [British Malaysia]; a direct transfusion using Julian Smith apparatus; the first donor at the blood bank; donors receiving cups of tea in the rest room of the blood bank; a Malay patient with facial disability; the CO [Commanding Officer] with the C in C [Commander in Chief] Air Vice-Marshall Brooke-Poppham April 1941 (used in his autobiography); tin mine near Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] [Federated Malay States]; Kuala Lumpur [Federated Malay States]; the Maxwell Arms and the Fraser's Hill golf course; padi (paddy); plaque to St Francis Zavier (Xavier) in the old church Malacca; the old church Malacca [Malaysia]; Stadthuys, Malacca [Malaysia]; mosque at Kuala Lumpur [Federated Malay States]; and a Chinese temple. The uncaptioned photographs are mostly of scenery but include two in a hospital including what may be Woodruff at a patient's bedside. 24 with captions or numbering, 18 uncaptioned and 12 with captions only. |