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Interesting ms letter (6pp, with 4pp wordprocessed transcript) to his wife, dated July 1944, recalling his service as the Commanding Officer of 24 Indian Engineer Battalion, and acting CRE of the 7th Indian Division, during the fighting in the 'Admin Box' in the Arakan in February 1944 and describing in particular the events of 6 February when the units under his command progressively withdrew under sustained Japanese fire from their original positions and he was wounded while retreating through the area occupied by their Divisional HQ, and had then to walk through the jungle for several hours before reaching a dressing station from which he was evacuated in a motor ambulance convoy that came under undirected fire before arriving at a casualty clearing station. Bishop is critical about the general line of retirement which he was originally ordered to follow and about the lack of nerve displayed by the Indian ambulance drivers when they came under fire.
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Interesting ms letter (6pp, with 4pp wordprocessed transcript) to his wife, dated July 1944, recalling his service as the Commanding Officer of 24 Indian Engineer Battalion, and acting CRE of the 7th Indian Division, during the fighting in the 'Admin Box' in the Arakan in February 1944 and describing in particular the events of 6 February when the units under his command progressively withdrew under sustained Japanese fire from their original positions and he was wounded while retreating through the area occupied by their Divisional HQ, and had then to walk through the jungle for several hours before reaching a dressing station from which he was evacuated in a motor ambulance convoy that came under undirected fire before arriving at a casualty clearing station. Bishop is critical about the general line of retirement which he was originally ordered to follow and about the lack of nerve displayed by the Indian ambulance drivers when they came under fire.
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