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Kota Kinabalu: Opus Publications, 2011. A few black and white illustrations, pp vi, 186, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Charles Macaskie was one of North Borneo’s most successful colonial officials. Arriving from England as a Cadet in 1910, he served briefly at Tambunan and Papar before embarking on a career that took him into almost every area of administration, culminating in his appointment as Chief Justice in 1934 and Deputy Governor in 1936. Luckily avoiding imprisonment by the Japanese, he spent the first part of the war in Australia before serving in the Borneo Planning Unit in Londin and after liberation as Chief Civil Affairs Officer for Borneo at Labuan. After the war, he headed the War Damages Commission for Borneo at Jesselton before retiring to become an apple farmer at Stanthorpe in Queensland. In 1946 he had married Doris Cole Adams whose husband, Bernard, died in BAtu Lintang prison camp, Kuching, only weeks before liberation. Thanks to Macaskie’s retirement appointment as…
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End of an Era - the Borneo Reminiscences of C.F.C. Macaskie, C.M.G. Hardcover - 2011
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- Title End of an Era - the Borneo Reminiscences of C.F.C. Macaskie, C.M.G.
- Author C.F.C. Macaskie
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- Publisher Opus Publications, Kota Kinabalu
- Date 2011
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Natural History Publishers Borneo. 2011. Hard cover. New in new dust jacket.. 196 p. Includes illustrations. . Charles Macaskie was one of North Borneo's most successful colonial officials. Arriving from England as a Cadet in 1910, he served briefly at Tambunan and Papar before embarking on a career that took him into almost every area of administration, culminating in his appointment as Chief Justice in 1934 and Deputy Governor in 1936. Luckily avoiding imprisonment by the Japanese, he spent the first part of the war in Australia before serving in the Borneo Planning Unit in Londin and after liberation as Chief Civil Affairs Officer for Borneo at Labuan. After the war, he headed the War Damages Commission for Borneo at Jesselton before retiring to become an apple farmer at Stanthorpe in Queensland. In 1946 he had married Doris Cole Adams whose husband, Bernard, died in BAtu Lintang prison camp, Kuching, only weeks before liberation. Thanks to Macaskie's retirement appointment as visiting British…
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Kota Kinabalu: Opus Publications, 2011. Hardcover. New/new. The memoirs of a distinguished civil servant in North Borneo both before and after World War II. Before the war he had risen to the position of Chief Justice and, having been part of the preparations in Australia for retaking the territory after the defeat of Japan, he was at the head of the British administration on the Allies' return. 186 pages. Weight 0.8kg. Post free within Malaysia
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