'Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service' [‎39r] (77/156)

lived behind the big house in their own quarters. As children's nurse, we had in
place of Gisela, a devoted Anglo-Indian girl narced Althea Dubois.
When Mary rejoined me from Abu, she was expecting our second child.^ In Aug ^ ^
wnen uai y i h named John
delivery took piece 1» W, „1, .toot
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. . Tt an anxious and frightening time, but David
nursing her latest born c i • Even then our troubles
eventually recovered though he came back home thin and w Secunderabad C lub
. not at an end. On Christmas Eve, we took the children to the Secunderata
r—'s part. When we returned there was a -g—g -
saying that her|father, a Forest Officer in the service o immediate ly.
north of Hyderabad, had been mauled by he had to hav e a leg
So off she went that same night. I am g A i the a did not return to us
amputated, Mr. Dubois eventually recovered. At any rate,
, , h „ . -nrcession of Indian nannies and Ayahs,
and so had to be replaced by a succession oi
,u i “’ « l; B .rb.or.
the news of si g Malaya , an d it was not long before Singapore
Shortly afterwards, the Japanese y ^ follovied by the Ja p anes e advance into
fell to their victorious forces. the war was brought to the
Burma and their rapid occupation of the whole out
^ Tndia M any of the active army divisions which Britain naa
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Calcutta a / ^ could be spared to repel any Japanese sea-borne
military centre, Coromandel coast) were very thin on the ground. The
landings on the eastern coas m oef P rv of the sea in the Bay
Japanese fleet had by ^ mllitarily ln any strengt h, they would
of Bengal, and had they, of Madras and overrunning the
hav e had ittl dif V ^ without much opposition into the in-
provincial ports. Th Y Ceylon way down
terior. The threat of armed invasion thus became very real, even to Ceyl