BURKILL, Humphrey Morrison
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Accession Number 002152
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 9
Total Reels
- Jason Lim (Dr)
Interviewer
- 04:21:01
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 9
Metadata
- 29 Sep 1999
Recording Date
- 00:30:04
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
(0:00:22) Recollections of his father, Isaac Henry Burkill, who was a botanist.
(0:01:34) His childhood.
(0:02:37) His interest in natural history.
(0:03:59) Studied Natural Sciences and later specialised in Crop Husbandry at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
(0:04:50) Worked at the Dunlop Malayan Plantations in Malacca.
(0:05:39) Studied Malay and Tamil.
(0:07:09) Elaborated further on his studies at Cambridge
(0:12:57) Job responsibilities as understudy to the Field Research Officer.
(0:15:31) Recounted an incident of a dead elephant blocking the drain.
(0:17:29) Worked with elephants in the Thai forest.
(0:18:43) Life as a British expatriate on the Dunlop Malayan Plantations estate during the war.
(0:19:56) Relations with the Indian labourers.
(0:21:12) Estates were appropriated by the Japanese during the war.
(0:23:25) Why he eventually left Dunlop and joined Rubber Research Institute (RRI).
(0:25:13) His work at the plantations in Johore during the Emergency.
(0:27:15) Joined the Federated Malay States Volunteer Corps before the war.
(0:29:51) Attached to a company of Royal Engineers.
Recollections of his father Isaac Henry Burkill. Interviewee's interest in natural history. Studied Natural Sciences and later specialized in Crop Husbandry at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Worked at Dunlop Malayan Plantations in Malacca. Studied Malay and Tamil. Job responsibilities as understudy to the Field Research Officer. Incident of a dead elephant blocking the drain. Relations with the Indian labourers. Why he eventually left Dunlop. Joined Rubber Research Institute (RRI). His work at the plantations in Johore during the Emergency. Joined the Federated Malay States Volunteer Corps before the war. Believed the Volunteers were useless.
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