Cecil, Robert Edgar, 1906-1961.

Robert Edgar Cecil papers, 1942-1945. - 3,000 items. 7 1 containers plus oversize. 4 linear feet.

Open to research.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports of committees, notices and orders, camp publications, rules and regulations, financial reports, medical records, studies of food and nutrition, organization charts, and other records relating chiefly to the administration of the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, a Japanese World War II prisoner of war camp in Manila, Philippines, where Cecil served as secretary of the executive committee and director of the department of sanitation and health during his internment. Also includes liberation reports and other records pertaining to the Los Baņos Internment Camp in Los Baņos, Philippines, where Cecil was later interned.


Insurance company executive.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011031

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Los Baņos Internment Camp.
Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines)


World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Philippines.


Insurance executives.