Category: 1944/02
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February 29th 1944
Old Pinsen turns out to be saner than I expected and we have a most interesting chat over my whisky last night. A big flap on just now on just now and Jap fleet expected in the Bay of Bengal – Pinsen has to go down as station master at Tanjore. G/C George Howard suggested […]
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February 27th 1944
I lose my identity pass and about 100 rupees and £1/10/- at the Bus Club. I put it in the cover of a book as I have no pockets in my bathing costume and later hand the book back to the librarian. He says it’s not there, so must have fallen out in the Club […]
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February 24th 1944
Still hanging on – with Bill Beaman and W/Cs Thunder and Gauntlet from Ceylon, go to Winston’s Chinese restaurant last night and sample some fried noodles. I am presenting a half tankard, and can’t get a bigger one, to 28 squadron. Yesterday they had done it wrong and put “13th Frontier Rifles” on it so […]
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February 22nd 1944
I am reduced from acting S/Leader back to my normal rank of F/L with effect from 31st January and S/Ldr R.M. Pinsen posted here in my place from Assault Wing. I am allowed to retain S/Ldr badges rank in accordance with some A.M.O. So here I sit all day and do nothing. This Hotel West […]
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February 20th 1944
I go down to the Club for a night and then to Alwaye by “wog” bus. Arrive in Bangalore and go to the office to discover that one Pimsen has been suggested by ACSEA as my relief, subject to AOC’s consent. Also an official letter saying I am ‘tour expired’ and will be repatriated to […]
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February 17th 1944
I go out again and get the jungle sheep after an arduous search cum stalk. He is 4’. Yesterday we go down to Willie Laird’s and beat for pig. No pig seen but I knock off a hind, and later a doe jungle sheep. I should have had a buck too, but I rush after […]
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February 15th 1944
We go down in the evening and see two huge stags come out. The Mudavan (?) takes me to about 200’ and though it’s pretty dark at 7.30pm I manage to hit the best, a great black beast, on the third shot with the .303, then miss the other one, who had been watching in […]
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February 13th 1944
My stag is hit and has gone to ground in the jungle somewhere. Yesterday I have breakfast at 6.30 and set out at dawn about 7.10, returning at 7.30. We sweat up and down the grassland slopes, up to 8724’, but see no saddlebacks. Plenty of ibex and one lot of five comes quite close. […]
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February 11th 1944
Yesterday evening I go out with C.P. Gouldsbury after jungle sheep but do not get a shot. We see a couple of red mongeese, with bluish grey heads and tail underparts – looks more like an otter. This morning we ride up to about 7200’ amongst the grassland switch blades where there is a shooting […]
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February 10th 1944
I fail to score as we do not see a single stag. Next day I collect five squirrels before lunch and another four this morning. Yesterday evening we go out and see a lot of Barking deer, or jungle sheep, in fact they bark very nearby. We stalk a buck, but he has gone when […]
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