Charles E. Fox - Diaries, 1942-1949

PMB 550

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau [19--]

440498

Microfilm : PMB 550

microfilm reel 35 mm

Fox (1878- ) was born in Dorset, England, and educated in New Zealand. He joined the Melanesian Mission from New Zealand and was posted to the Mission's school on Norfolk Island in 1902. After being ordained in 1903, he spent some time in the Banks Group of the New Hebrides before going to San Cristobal, Solomon Islands, in 1908 where he began a school and started learning the local languages. He remained in the Solomons throughout the Pacific war, living behind Japanese lines. After the war he continued as a teacher and remained in the Solomons until well into his eighties

During the Japanese occupation of the Solomons the diaries were kept in the Arosi language of San Cristobal

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 550
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by Melanesian Church Office, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Partly in English. Partly in Arosi