Description
Object description
Ts/ms account (37pp) of his service in the Royal Air Force in India, Burma and Ceylon (1943 - 1946), describing his journey to Cape Town in the troopship DUCHESS OF RICHMOND and then to Bombay in the troopship DILWARA (1943), after which he was posted to Chittagong where he describes his journey in Indian troop trains and then his posting to the Air Sea Rescue unit at Akyab where he became a wireless operator, describing his first crash call and then transfer to Rangoon (May 1945) where he comments on the extent of the damage suffered by the city during its fall, as well as the attitude of its inhabitants towards their liberators and their suffering under Japanese occupation, and his posting to the Royal Air Force Signals centre near Colombo, Ceylon where he refers to the RAF 'strikes'; together with miscellaneous papers including printed proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of Cape Town Citizens (February 1943), printed brochures for Delhi, Calcutta and Durban, and a photograph of a troopship (presumably DUCHESS OF RICHMOND or DILWARA).
Content description
Ts/ms account (37pp) of his service in the Royal Air Force in India, Burma and Ceylon (1943 - 1946), describing his journey to Cape Town in the troopship DUCHESS OF RICHMOND and then to Bombay in the troopship DILWARA (1943), after which he was posted to Chittagong where he describes his journey in Indian troop trains and then his posting to the Air Sea Rescue unit at Akyab where he became a wireless operator, describing his first crash call and then transfer to Rangoon (May 1945) where he comments on the extent of the damage suffered by the city during its fall, as well as the attitude of its inhabitants towards their liberators and their suffering under Japanese occupation, and his posting to the Royal Air Force Signals centre near Colombo, Ceylon where he refers to the RAF 'strikes'; together with miscellaneous papers including printed proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of Cape Town Citizens (February 1943), printed brochures for Delhi, Calcutta and Durban, and a photograph of a troopship (presumably DUCHESS OF RICHMOND or DILWARA).
History note
Cataloguer JSK
History note
Catalogue date 2002-05-14