"حكاية جد: مذكرات معنية في أغلبها بالخدمة في الجيش الهندي والخدمة السياسية الهندية في الهند والخليج الفارسي في الفترة ١٩٣٢-١٩٤٧" [و‎‎٢‎٧] (١١٨/٥٣)

a detachment on Moharraq, ra thrsmali a isla^d a at tacked"to S BLr^ ff ^ ^
Whe r At ^ time there was septate civir^’
airfield but flying boats landed on the sea between the two islands Hoharraa
was used mainly as a staging post and there was another airfield
on the -Tru.cial Coast, also staffed by the B.A.F where T hed^ a ^ nar;|ah ’
way home on leave in 1937 . * X tla< ^ ^ an ^ e< ^ on m y
kith», STpbSSbS'hS 1 ^ :;rM; ?“? n "" 17 4 - lt
contact With tne Government of India and also with the Foreign Office i^ondon
and I, as his dogsbody, was kept fully occupied. All kinds of additional
problems arose as a result of the war, though it was then still, of course the
stage of the -'phoney war". There was, too, a good deal of socih activity’
of BAPCO?® 6 1 Eur ° pean co ™ un ity in Manama and with the senior stiff
!* e g ni 1939 news came that the Military Officers of my
entry m the Political Service, the senior not yet confirmed in the Service,
in ‘rtiir nr the Army - 1 had been about this for some time
Cnio th ^ Lhere was a war 0n I should be back with my Regiment,
oionei^rior, however, wanted to keep me in the Gulf and came back from a
. ri t visit to to^say that it had been arranged that I should stay on
in Bahrain as Staff Officer in the Persian Gulf". What exactly this would
have entailed I never discovered for, much to his annoyance and nrobably to
?!! p e ^^ ent ^ Career as a Political, I insisted on rejoining the
S ° f t ? 6 1stGarkhas * Th ey were then stationed in Razmak, about
o,OOOi o above sea level, in the midst of tribal territory.
Karachi i ^ 6ft 3a ^ rain by sea on the 31st December 1939, landed at
Karacni lour days later, and arrived in Lucknow by rail on the 4th January,
Bar f; ons * He was in the I.C.3. and they were old friends
ot uane s mother. We nad previously known them in Bareilly just after our
with S them fo Wh fh h M R WaS -?n ePUty Comraissioner there. In fact Jane had stayed
h -, h f r ohe 3are: Llly Week" while I had stayed at the Club, for what
nad been a very memorable few days.
r ,, Bes iies actual travelling time I had two weeks "joining time" since
nf n^ r - tUrn i nS from ou tside India, and we had two happy weeks, meeting a lot
R h . r:L ® na s and relaxing after what had been a very hectic last month in
^fn ln : • ? J ^ uar y 16th 1 set off by train for Bannu, the Headquarters of
ao , 1Soric t oi that name and the nearest rail head for Razmak. It took
hours and when I arrived I found that I had just missed the last convoy,
i. ere was so much unrest in those days in Waziristan that the road was only
£n° r - traffiC t0 Razmak about once a week and on those days the whole
" a , miles, had to be picquetted by troops from the various costs alone*
tne route. °
o .^ Bannu v/as quite a large Cantonment and the Headquarters of a
rigade. At the time of my arrival it was stiff with troops as there were