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:*[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2533 ''Malaya and Singapore Survey Directory of Churches and Missions in the Federation and Colony''] by V A Chelliah, No date in catalogue but c 1948. Older website. Introductory chapter only.
:*[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/809/browse Articles from ''Malaya in History''] including
:**[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2017 "Kelantan During World War 1"] by W E Pepys. An article from ''Malaya in History'' July 1960.
:**[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2031 ''The Last of The Creepers: Memoirs of A Malayan Rubber Planter 1907-1917''] by C R Harrison, 1961. This is an article from ''Malaya in History'', Volume 7, No 1, September 1961. A Creeper is variously described as described as a very new junior assistant,<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sb-JAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA28 Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930], ''Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy'' by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.</ref> a novice assistant<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ADgUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208 Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World"], ''The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber'' by John Tully 2011. Google Books</ref> or an assistant planter.<ref>[http://www.christopherhalemedia.org/2013/01/the-planters-life/ "The Planter’s Life"] by Christopher Hale, January 2013.</ref>
:**[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2058 ''Untapped Historical Source: Rest House Register Books''] by Robin W Winks. First page only of an article from ''Malaya in History'' April 1964. All older website.
: Note this website in the past was often unavailable, and possibly may only be available during office hours, Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (local time), being GMT 00.00 to 9.00am
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Malayan%20Agricultural%20Journal%29 ''Malayan Agricultural Journal''] Archive.org. A limited number of editions are also available on [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=Malayan&filtername=title&filtertype=contains&filterquery=malayan&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc Krishikosh] Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System, as pdf downloads. Also [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2047353 Malayan Agriculture 1924 Hand Book]
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Agricultural+bulletin+of+the+Straits+%29&sort=-publicdate ''Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States''], Multiple volumes, but at least from New Series Volume I 1902 to Volume X, 1911. For many editions, you need to look at the title page, as year is not otherwise catalogued. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/last-of-the-creepers/mode/2up "The Last of The Creepers: Memoirs of A Malayan Rubber Planter 1907-1917"] by C R Harrison, an article from pages 19-27 ''Malaya in History'', Volume 7, No 1, September 1961 (Malayan Historical Society). Archive.org. A Creeper is variously described as described as a very new junior assistant,<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sb-JAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA28 Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930], ''Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy'' by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.</ref> a novice assistant<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ADgUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208 Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World"], ''The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber'' by John Tully 2011. Google Books</ref> or an assistant planter.<ref>[http://www.christopherhalemedia.org/2013/01/the-planters-life/ "The Planter’s Life"] by Christopher Hale, January 2013.</ref> Includes mention of the medical work carried out by Dr.Malcolm Watson which benefited the rubber plantation industry.
*[https://archive.org/details/plantersspeculat0000jame ''Planters and speculators : Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921''] by James Charles Jackson 1968. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available, but probably sample pages only, [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2441 Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932. The initial chapters cover his time in Malaya as a young man c 1908-1910 where his uncles were rubber planters. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541 Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160417185309/http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com], now an archived webpage.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524315 ''Malayan Landscape''] by Katharine Sim with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt. 1946. The author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942. The final chapter is about the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/NotesOnJapaneseWarfareOnTheMalayanFront/page/n1/mode/2up ''Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front''] Information Bulletin no. 6, 9 January 1942 by [USA] War Department, Military Intelligence Division. Archive.org
*Malayan Civil Service**[https://archive.org/details/kelantan-ww1-pepys/mode/2up "Kelantan During World War I"] by W E Pepys, an article from ''Malaya in History'' July 1960 (Malayan Historical Society), pages 36-39. Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service 1921-46. The initial chapters are about his WW1 service in the British Army on the [[Western Front]].
:Purcell was also the author of ''Malaya : Outline of a Colony'' 1946, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003009266 . Also available to search but not view [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006530445 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
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