Category: 1941/07
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July 29th 1941
On Sunday I go out with Dickie Bird to lunch at the Mansels. He is 1st Lieut in HMIS Rakardar, the RIN training school, and lives in Manora. There is a wonderful cool breeze all the year there, and they need blankets in June and July. After lunch, at 3, we go sailing, and then […]
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July 27th 1941
Was preparing for a long weekend in Missourie when Wigg suddenly comes into the pupils room to say that Dunford Wood and Haig will go down to Karachi tonight with Ft/Lt Gambert to collect three Audaxes. Johnny Benbow came down the other day from Karachi as Adjutant to the 7/15. Well, we left Ambala by […]
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July 20th 1941
Two hits in the 50* ring yesterday, dive bombing. Haig went off to Naini Tal on Friday and one of the CGI’s little chits came round on Saturday morning asking him to report. I say to bearer he is sick and later they ring up at lunchtime for him and I tell the boy “Nei […]
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July 14th 1941
Went up to Missourie for the weekend with A. Haig. We get a lift in a car with Taylor and Scorer, two sergeant pilots on this course, and reach there about 7.30pm. Tea in Dehra Dun and up through the mist to Missourie, 6500′. Very good shooting country, and round Dehra Dun too. We go […]
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July 10th 1941
I believe I had a birthday yesterday – rode the horse to my favourite wood and then filled myself with beer and Pims, had dinner, and so to bed. I wish I had someone to talk with here over a mug of beer. Young Haig doesn’t drink, but I could talk with him in Habbaniya, […]
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July 6th 1941
Out at 3.30am in tonga to the Nullah by the cantonment water supply. Off on foot for black back, in the woods north of Barana village. I do one stalk but find there are no spikes or buck so leave it, and am following some more through the scrub, when suddenly they turn and come […]
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