Category: 1941/06
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June 29th 1941
Another long weekend, but I seem to be still here. I am introduced to air-to-air but seem to make rather a cock of it. My rifle arrives from Abbottabad, but there’s going to be difficulty getting ammo as it all appears to have been taken over by the Government for ‘parashots’. Do 16 miles on […]
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June 25th 1941
Allan goes off to Naini Tal for the weekend to see his fiancee Violet, and I stay here. Go and see Peter Fisher, RA,ex Abbottabad, and fix myself up with a horse. It comes round when I want it and I tip the orderly at the end of the month. Buy myself some bush shirts […]
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June 19th 1941 – Ambala
We spend the 13th at the BAPCO Club, with one Wally Jones and his wife, swimming, golf and a cinema. On 14th leave and reach Karachi, very sticky, at 5.30pm. Difficulty with customs over my unregistered camera and my .38’s number, but we get away eventually to Killarney Hotel. We go round to Simonsons and […]
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June 15th 1941 – Bahrein, en route India
Route: Habbaniya-Rutbah: 190 miles Rutbah-H4: 130 miles H4-LG22: 81 miles LG22-Asraq: 20 miles Asraq-Ma’an: 137 miles Ma’an-Akaba: 62 miles Akaba-Ismailia: 180 miles Leave in 6020 (Hart) at about 6am with suitcase and kitbag in the back seat. First stop Rutbah, despite my formation leader, a Hurricane sergeant, doing his best to lose the way, and […]
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June 13th, 1941
Yesterday I go in a Blenheim with Stonhill down to Basrah. A drink at the airport and then off to see Willie Armstrong at Force HQ, whilst Stony goes to the RAF station. Willie very busy and only able to have a few words with him, but he says 56th still in Wana, Maitland France […]
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June 6th 1941
31 Squadron arrived here. Dougie Homes, Bird and O’Neil staying here, the rest in the AHQ Mess. They bring the ‘onlooker’ with them. Met one Walters, RIASC, at the swimming pool who left 56th in 1937. He said Willie Armstrong has a staff job in Shatt-el-Arab hotel in Basrah. Nine Harts and nine Oxfords have […]
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June 2nd 1941
Baghdad taken and armistice granted. Germams supposed to have arrived with 50 and to have left with 22 ‘planes. An ME110 found on the ground today and one Blenheim vanished on recco. two days ago. Dan announced today dissolution of the squadron and final dissolution of 4 FTS. The Audaxes are to be flown to […]
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