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tom clifford - the war years 2

May 1944 - Volunteering for Forward Duties Dad leaves Lahore for Calcutta. Dad was left ton the rear party...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 6

In general the Workshop Sections were United Provinces Hindus and the Park Sections were Punjabi Mussulmen,...

A Marine's Tale Part 7

A few more days took us through the Gulf of Aden and across the Arabian Sea to the Indian port of Bombay...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 2

Before the war, Burma was a British colony and had forestry companies to harvest the teak trees, and...

Nursing from Bangor to Bombay and Beyond (Plus the Colditz Hymnbook)

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 11

Three months later, General Bill Slim's 14th Army invasion of Burma was pre-empted by the Japanese 15th...

The Black Cats: Part 3

Left the East Yorks. on August 24th bound for the Cipper operations course at the signals training centre,...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 7

In Central India and Ceylon the war did not interfere with the many traditional religious festivals...

A Queen Alexandra's Nurse in India by Margaret Ledger

There were other travellers on the train, mostly natives of India and some British troops, but I was the...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 1

It must have been winter because it was terribly cold, so when one day a notice appeared on the...

"Always Read The Small Print" Chapter Two

The Camerons with the Mahrattas, and Ghurka battalions had moved into Tobruk and occupied trenches and...

Memories 3e

Friends of a friend in England, Major and Mrs Hughes, invite me to dinner at their spacious bungalow in...

War Service' An Unusual Experience' Part 1

I asked for a guide from the Burmese Government to take me to see a man named U. Bassein, who was the...

The Black Cats: Part 2

It was another 350 miles to Rangoon and 17 Div. wanted to be the first there, as it was they who the...

What did you do in the RAF, Dad? (Part 2)

Finally at the end of the West Coast Indian Railway it was off on a ferry crossing to Ceylon. A few days...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 5

I must also explain here that before leaving Cape Town the Regiment was split into two sections with some...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 4

A stronger hint was the two page schedule of rates of pay for an officer serving with various branches of...

My Life My War - Chapter 13c

It was also part of the patrol's duty to work in conjunction with the local police and to walk around...

Reg Stone: Experience in India

We sailed round Ceylon, through the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay eventually docking at...

WW II Battlefields in the NE of India

To the southwest the Japanese and Netaj Subhash Chander Bose's Indian National Army advanced, up the...

Radio installations in MLs for secret operations along coast of Burma

This involved us in building a new main radio station in or near Calcutta that would be very much bigger...

A Thomas Cook Tour

Belvoir Park, Belfast, was an ammunition dump at the time. Whilst there, I saw Winston Churchill, President...

Don’t look back - (Its not there any more) - Part 2

They were fighter planes, Zeros, and they were homing in on us, but our fighters from the aircraft carrier...

Adventures of a Wartime Bus Conductress

I went out with him from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and on the Friday somebody had failed to...

Seven Years of War - Part 7, a continuation of story no. A4292462: India - Deolali, Gaya, Dimapur, Kohima, the mountains.

I joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was told that we were now in the First Indian Infantry Brigade, which...

My Time with the RAF

I'd come off a 12 hour night shift, and had been asleep for about an hour when a man from the Orderly...