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Colonel Cyril Hew Dalrymple Wild of the British Military

2017-3043
Accession Number
2017-3043
4x5 inches (10x13 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350490913
Related Collection
Brannon, John G. Papers
Keywords
War crime trials
Soldiers
World War, 1939-1945
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Credit:
Wegner
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Colonel Cyril Hew Dalrymple Wild of the British military sits in the witness box at the War Ministry Building Courtroom in Tokyo, Japan. He was a War Crime Liaison Officer, who testified for the prosecution that Japan violated Siam's neutrality, also to the mistreatment of prisoners of war by Japanese in trial of twenty-seven ex-leaders of Japan. He was killed the next day in plane crash on his way to Singapore.
Date(s)
September 11, 1946