India

KC4 Arrival in Bombay.

The Gateway to India was very impressive and we were allowed to land... Our trunks had been taken to the...

Entertaining the Troops

MOsquitoes were buzzing around you all the time and we were out in Burma for six weeks after which we were...

Memories of August 6th 1945

As my train made its way to Mysore I talked with friends who were also making their way back to the hotel...

Applying for Uni. in India!

The partition of India between Hindus and Muslims was proposed and riots and slaughter were occurring all...

Experiences in India and Burma

We spent six weeks in India before going to Burma....

KC5 Secunderabad

Secunderabad was the modern Indian city and Hyderabad the established Old City. The Nizam was the Indian...

COMPARED TO SOME FOLKS, I HAD A RELATIVELY EASY WAR

On the way to Cape Town, one man died from measles and was burned at sea. We sailed back from Singapore on...

The Wartime Experience of Miriam Ethel Gilroy Pt3

Miriam was posted to Jamshedpur and later still back to Quetta.She had become engaged to F.O. Peter Gilroy...

KC8 2 weeks holiday

The hotel there organised a taxi for 3 other officers and myself to go to Gulmarg for this was the way to...

Roger Lines memories

At Quetta I had the amazing luck to be present at the last Tribal Durbar The Durbar is held out in the...

One man's war

Eventually we were sent overseas, not knowing where and sailed via Cape Town to the Far East, having been...

Wartime Experience in Assam and Burma

From there I was posted to a medical unit in the 25th Indian Infantry Division and spent most of my time...

A VAD's story

I was a VAD attached to the army; we sailed into Bombay on a troop ship in December 1945, glad to be...

1944 - 1947

In this I saw a lot of India, including the Taj Mahal... In addition there was a dhobi wallah who did your...

Horse-riding in India

George said “yes” because he had ridden his grandfather's Clydesdale in Donegal......

The British Raj in India

During the wartime we had holidays over Christmas in Agra where our house looked over the Taj Mahal but we...

EAST AFRICAN RIFLES IN CEYLON AND BURMA Part 1 of 3: WITH THE EAST AFRICAN RIFLES IN CEYLON

EAST AFRICAN RIFLES IN CEYLON AND BURMA Part 1 of 3: WITH THE EAST AFRICAN RIFLES IN CEYLON. In Ceylon I...

A Poem from India

Presented to his nurse, Sister Clewley, Ward ‘C’, CMH Avoli by M.A. Khan. She was then...

Out Of Bounds

My Father, Philip Roy Gallop, served in Bombay — and upon his arrival in 1943 he was issued with a...

THE FAR EAST

H.Q. Supreme allied connander south east asia we set up the H Q in New Delhi in october 1943. in the spring...

From Africa to India...and on to Burma

On 19th October I was put in charge of a road convoy leaving the Gold Coast and travelling through French...

Christmas in Jodhpur

Next posting was to South East Asia Command leaving England on the15th October 1943 arriving in Jodhpur,...

A watering hole

Someone washing in a watering hole in Calcutta. This was seen and photographed by my Father, Sgt. Philip...

Elephants and Maharajahs

I then went out as an officer cadet to the Indian Army. At the age of 21 I was one of the...

Vultures

A vulture feasting on some meat, as seen and photographed by my Father, Sgt. Philip Roy Gallop, during his...

Nainital by moonlight

Safeguarding the secrecy of military operations Marlborough Theatre — “Now or Never” A...