Researching Rupert Wilkinson
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The name Rupert means "Form of ROBERT. bright fame" and is of Italian origin.
Records of Rupert Wilkinson on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rupert Wilkinson and the Wilkinson Family History
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Some Famous People called Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert Wilkinson (18 May 1938, in Surrey – 21 December 2014) was a British historian specializing in the history of the United States. He is perhaps best known to the general public for his book, Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp.
Wilkinson's 2014 book, Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp: Life and Liberation at Santo Tomás, Manila, in World War II, was both a memoir of his own childhood incarceration during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, and a formally researched and highly respected history of the Santo Tomas Internment Camp.
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