Category: 1940/06
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June 23rd 1940 – Wana
A still greater blow. Reggie says that I shall have to go to the TB (Training battalion) in Abbottabad shortly. This is being expanded, as well as 7/13 and 8/13. That settles the war for me then. Christ! A PAD scheme here. I get the job of AGO and PADO and it is the nearest…
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June 16th 1940 – Wana
I leave Lahore on the Frontier Mail and meet Attam Khan in Lalamusa, where I have to spend quite some time. Arrive at Darya Khan at 4.15am and then by car to DIK. This entails a trans-shipment across the Indus in a launch, which of course goes aground half way across. Met John in the…
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June 7th 1940 – Lahore
We go to the Moriani Club on Saturday 1st and then I go off for a night with Peter Allan, and what a night. Tennis, a drink and change, then a game of pills (?), some bridge, and then boozing in the bar with a chap who knew John Macneil, and we leave at 12pm.…
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