This diary belongs to Private Albert Riley who served in the 196 Field Ambulance Unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II. It records his whereabouts from the time he left the United Kingdom till his arrival in Singapore, followed by his days as a prisoner of war and later his move up north to the Burma-Thailand Railway in early 1943. Riley recorded the names of the POWs who died within the first hundred days of capture. Towards the end of the war, Riley was able to return to Changi with the sick and wounded men. After the war, he was able to return to Britain after the surrender of the Japanese.
