India

KC3 Further Training

While I was waiting for a posting, the Nursing Home at Pitchcome, which Auntie Maudie had started, asked me...

177 Squadron

By the time of the Sheffield Blitz on December 9th and 12th 1940, I had moved from Dore & Totley...

Welcome to Bombay

Churches: Afghan Memorial, Colaba Bombay Baptist Church, Colaba Bowen Methodist Episcopal Church, Lansdowne...

Training Platoons, Indian Army

It started slow with 3 or 4 clerks and about 40 men but later, 2 years ahead at Lucknow I had an...

"SHEMRAY"

We introduced ourselves, and after the dance I brought along Paddy and Joe - I had to! " Joe danced...

Your story 'A Passage to India...' edited and categorised

The service personnel in control of the ‘passengers’ were from the RAF — probably because...

They Also Serve

I then realised the current of petty jealousy which I had endured and exploded with a threat of physical...

PASSAGE TO INDIA

Now in Arabian Sea - destination Bombay Tuesday 27.3.45 Still at sea, should arrive Bombay on Saturday...

KC11 Holiday

We took the best pictures we could, but didn't have time in the week to get the film developed, so had...

A WORKING DAY IN THE HOT SEASON

The aeroplane which I use for instruction is under a torn and tattered old cover - poor protection from the...

Trooship around Cape to Far East

Leaving Freetown, we passed the Isle of St Helena, and after some time we arrived in Cape Town, seeing the...

KC6 3 B.M.N.S.U.

The British staff consisted of one major in charge, 2 or 3 surgeons , a senior sister and a moveable number...

marriage in India

In the 3 days before we had the wedding arranged, David, Pat & I took a look at the Calcutta shops. Pat...

The Wartime Exprience of Miriam Ethel Gilroy

After this meeting they travelled on further towards Calcutta until at another stop they met three more...

"FROM MUCH WENLOCK TO INDIA" (My War as a Queen Alexandra Nurse 1942-1945 -SEAC)

I am the proud owner of the Burma Star, and as a result of my story "A Nurse amid the Hell of...

Nancy McQueen remembers nursing in the QA's

After gaining my SRN Certificate in 1943 I joined the Army as a Nursing Sister in the Queen Alexandra's...

A nurse amid the hell of war

The wards had to be tidied and put in order, but the Chindits — members of the Allied commando forces...

A Nurse’s War

In April 1942, I join Queen Alexandra's Royal Nursing Service as a Nursing Sister and work at R.N....

Life running YWCA hostels in Bombay, Calcutta and Bangalore

The hostel was next to Jala Hally, a hospital town which the Maharajah of Mysore had been building as a...

An Ulsterman's Travels in India

We went to Bombay, and from Bombay we were posted to Nagpur in the central province of India. When the japs...

Running the YWCA Welfare Hostel

In Bombay I was in a YWCA Welfare Hostel and had to look after all the women in uniform, whatever their...

KC7 The general lay-out around us

Ann took the Red Cross gramophones to get them mended in Calcutta, flying with it from the local grass...

3 Million Dead in Artificial Famine in Bengal

Later the British tried to suppress the facts about this British-inflicted holocaust in India, occurring...

Service in the Burma campaign

Having croosed the River Brahmaputra we were stationed at 14th Army Headquarters in Comilla in Eastern...

Nursing in Burma

Each hospital comprised of a C.O. Matron, Medical Officers, an X-Ray department, a Pat Lab, Nursing...

My V.E.Day

I spent V.E.day,Tuesday 8th May 1945,in one of the world's most heavenly places,on a houseboat moored...