Private Papers of S S Shukla

A ts letter (1p, September 1945) written by a Company Havildar of No 6 IMFTU, Indian Army Medical Corps (IAMC) to Corporal Douglas Frank Golding, an RAMC soldier who had served with him, congratulating the British on electing a Labour government and on the end of the war with Germany and Japan, and his own thoughts on the feeling in India and China about their new future and whether they will have independence or again be "kept forcibly under the Imperialism of the West", and if the latter, for what have they "sacrificed the lives of hundreds of millions in this war?", and asking Golding for the opinions of the British masses rather than their leaders. Together with: a copy of a photograph of Golding and other NCOs, including two Indians (Shukla?); photocopies of five photographs of Golding and others after Dunkirk (1940), and in India (n.d) and Burma (1943); and an order of service for Douglas Golding's funeral (4pp, February 2015).

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