Category: 1940/04
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April 29th 1940 – Srinagar
I arrange to come up on 10 days leave with Dudley Withers to Kashmir, and so write to Marjorie to fix us up with a boat, and here we are in Srinagar. After the final exam we depart the 25th for Lahore, where his squadron was (now Peshawar) and where his car is. I send […]
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April 20th – Pachmarhi
Doing plenty of work here. Up at 7, at it from 8.30 until lunchtime. I then relax for an hour or so, have tea and go off to tennis. (JDW: call this work, Dad? How things have changed in 70 years..) We have all fallen into our groups and cliques now. I am in one […]
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April 6th 1940 – Pachmarhi
Saturdays are holidays, instead of Thursdays. Interesting work it is, although unfortunately I don’t know all the parrot stuff in Urdu; or English for that matter. In the afternoon I write my notes and then go and play tennis in the Club. After that a drink, come back and change, then I seem to be […]
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