India

Burma (King’s Own Scottish Borderes.)

Lovely girls, Anglo Indian, Chinese, Burmese. Coming back on the boat there were lots of English people We...

Life with the RAF in India

You could have quite often seen a snake on the top of your mosquito net... Malaria carriers, the mosquito....

Childhood in India 3

We had problems with the Indian Congress Party, they said the British were starving the people of India, in...

Journey in War-Time

It seemed very strange that they were shouting up at us in Australia if we had any cigarettes to spare, we...

Serving with the R.A.F. in India 1944 — 1946 by Dr W.D. Cockbain

When Japan was made to surrender, the R.A.F. asked for suitable people to take a teacher's training...

Evacuated to Canada then on to India

I was then sent to Boarding School in Toronto, and my brother and Mother went across Canada and then the...

159 Parachute Light Regiment R.A/44th Indian Airborne Division

Early in 1945 the 44th Indian Airborne Division was formed to consist of two parachute brigades, one...

Ann,Dear

The expectant mums had left without us, in fact everyone had left without us.The guard collected the other...

Long Distance Evacuee-India to Liverpool

I had arrived in India as an importee in 1937, my first memories are of sailing through that...

Taken off the Beach and Sent to India

The convoy got within a few miles of Dunkirk and met with a massive traffic jam of British Army lorries....

Peter Senhenn's story

Crossed the Atlantic to Canada on the Queen Elizabeth to Halifax, Nova Scotia and was posted to RAF...

Under the Indian Sun

There was a lot of conflict in the India at the time between Muslims and Hindu's. I was actually in...

All for 50 Rupees a Month!!!

The C.O, Wing Commander "Bill" Burberry said, "come with me Sumption" so, Sumption duly...

Joining the RAF in India

The first landfall we had was Sierra Leone on West Africa. We couldn't use the Suez canal, because the...

My Life as a Sikh Soldier In India

British people really appreciated the Sikhs joining the British Army, and were very encouraging. Whenever...

When the Japs came to Vizag, India

In 1941 the Japs declared war on the USA and as Vizag was a natural harbour, preparations were put in place...

How I came to be in the British Army from a Reserved Occupation

As an employee of Hobourn Aero Components, I was in a 'reserved' occupation and, therefore, not...

To India with the Naval Maintenance Repair Unit

We stayed in Bombay for a week in the transit camp before being moved down to Mandapam, right on the...

South East Asia Command

A second special job was at Camilla, an isolated area with a grass airstrip.We drove the top brass...

My Bit Of Excitement

Reaching Bombay, we spent a few weeks at Deolali, before moving across India to Calcutta... Boarding a...

War Memories from a Punjab Boyhood

Considered one of the most powerful vessels afloat during the war she was a major target of the British...

Radar Mechanic 225826

My outstanding memory of India, was that we were on the edge of the Sind Desert, the temperature was around...

My Grandad's experiences in India

For most of the War my Grandad was based in India and I can vividly remember him telling me of how he...

Maurice Grantham-Experiences in Ceylon and India

We had another long train journey from Calcutta to Bombay and then we came back through the Med.When we...

Winged Chariots -Part 7: From Hurricanes to Dakotas

At Mingladon I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting my long-time friend and former neighbour, navigator...

Burma with the Warwickshire Regiment

Burma is about the size of Germany - and the Japanese forced us to retreat to North Burma and then on into...