Category: 1943/10
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October 25th 1943
I get a Board (JDW: Medical board) and three weeks leave from A.O.C. and set off for RAF Hill Depot at Munnar, Travancore, 4500′ up. Of course the train from Bangalore is late and we (one Flo Withers and I) get to Jalapet at 1, another train at 3pm, and arrive Alwaya at midnight. We […]
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October 21st 1943
I have the Jones’ up again and also a party with Babneal (?) and his wife. Meet a charming fellow called Broderick, a South African. I manage to squeeze two weeks sick leave and one casual out of the A.O.C. and am off to Munnar in Travancore. There is an RAF hill depot there and […]
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October 14th 1943
I am due for discharge tomorrow. The treatment is now two days quinine, five days Atebrin, two days rest and five days Plasmaquin, or whatever the present substitutes. I get a bottle of Solan beer each evening, but am getting fed up with the chap who shares my room, an RIASC Lieutenant who insists on […]
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October 8th 1943
I am sitting in Kumara Park one afternoon and feel the fever coming on, so walk out and report to the M.O. that I have my ninth fever coming on. They whip me into B.M.H. and after one evening’s sweating I am OK. Food good, two nice nurses to sit and chat with and a […]
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October 1st 1943
I have dinner with Tom Jones and his wife in the hotel and go out for a drink with Catherine Railton whom I also met. Tome Pierce comes over on a visit and we have dinner together. Last night I get mixed up with a most interesting chap – one Lt Col Cooper E. Yorks […]
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