Letter written by Seeto Yook Shui to his brother Seeto Yook You
Item
- Title
- Letter written by Seeto Yook Shui to his brother Seeto Yook You
- Subject
- World War, 1939-1945--Sources
- Papua New Guinea--History
- Chinese letters
- War stories
- Personal narratives
- Category
- 4. World War II
- Author
- Seeto, Yook Shui
- Current holder
- State Library of New South Wales
- Date
- October 21, 1945
- Series number
- 9yM0qVA9
- Item number
- zPvlALQwpb0qd
- Access rights
- Digitised
- Rights
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In copyright – life of author(s) plus 70 years. Research & study copies allowed. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Place
- Rabaul
- Language
- Chinese
- English
- Description from source
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Letter written by Seeto Yook Shui to his brother Seeto Yook You on 21 October 1945, with translation by Daniel Yung and David C L Seeto, 22 June 2009. Copy of an original letter by Seeto Yook Shui in traditional Chinese characters, with accompanying English translation by Daniel Yung and David Seeto, 2 PDF files. Seeto Yook Shui was a Chinese businessman, a tailor by training, who lived in Wau, Papua New Guinea with his family when the war in the Pacific broke out in December 1941, ending up at a Catholic mission on Yule Island before eventual evacuation to Australia by ship from Port Moresby.
- Related resources
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27938697
- Bibliographic citation