'A Grandfather's Tale: Memoirs being mainly concerned with service in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service in India and the Persian Gulf from 1932-1947' [‎29r] (57/118)

Manor Hotel before quarters could bp ,
Nepalese were encamped, some six miles away in the^thill^ 01 ^’ ^
managed to acquire a 10 H.P. Morris saloon, four years old^hl LuCkll y’ 1
condition, otherwise getting to camp would have been dimoul^ ln q S0 ° d .
we moved out to Birpur, the 9th Gurkhas permanent headou^teis' s' 511 ’ h ° WeVer ''
one of their bachelors’ bungalows THp Qfh ,, ' ‘ aaquarters, and were given
due back until June, so for a few months at t °? the Fr ° ntier aJld not
settled. This was the first house o? oni f We l00ked like bein S
marriage ten months before, and we were at last^bl^t ^ 3 Sln ° e ° Ur
and in my case, see some of our wedding presents for the’^Cst time OUr Befor" SinSS,
TZLZri returned^olitical, ^and^althou^h ^ “
made us feel absolutely at home in their house^d^uite^orry^o lefve e itr ney
longer a problL^rbLnlTne^er inffai/^^ GanS ° ra ’ S ° travellin S no
cinema, and we went in there fairly often. During AnrHl
Week and the new Governor of the United Provinces, Sir Maurice Hallett ca^e
up and gave a Garden Party to which we went. We also saw the Finals of t"
for°the a mos^ 0 f- t 6 3all ‘ Eut these were exceptional excitements and
The 9th Gurkh^^ 7 ^ arausements with P^ple who lived locally.
, 9th Garkh ^- S ha ^ a squash court which I was able to use, and I also played
nach^ide^of ° Unt : ^ ^ thS m ° St -Ho- sweet pea hedges
u C n ne drive up to their Mess, and even when riding a horse one
it< d See ° Ver the to P* Th e scent was gorgeous and I have never forgotten
waq Hn . Do ^ e9 u 3 j rd ^s expecting a baby in July 199-0 while our first offsoring
n . , oe P tember > so Jane and she spent a good deal of time together while
ick and ! were, at work. On Sundays we sometimes went fishing and the girls
woa^ onng a picnic. It was all very pleasant despite the fact that however
late or early we started we never seemed to catch any fish.
,. Ia addit i°n to ordinary work with the Nepalese, I started learning
f7l\ 7 Ch 5 aS / d±fferent script, Nagri, and a largely different vocabulary
. r nirldustani is a mixture of the two. On an ordinary day I would
bll7 V r w be 0n P ^^ 9 with the troops from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., come
,, for br eakfast, then parade again from 10.30 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Lecture
™ ®? alese 0lf icers on various subjects from 11.30 - 1 p.m. Then work in
ne oi xlC e until 1.45 p.m., have lunch and work at Hindi from 2.30 p.m. to
900 p.m. and then change into mufti or games kit. Tea at 3 p.m. and some sort '
g exorcise 5.30 to 7 p.m., then bath, change and a drink and Dinner at
OO p.m. Unless we were going out somewhere we were usually quite ready for
0 . e f+ . alber ii^eui 11 ^ to the 9«30 - 10 p.m. News. By the beginning of May it was
oettmg quite hot something over 100° F. My "free period" from 4 p.m. - 3 p.m.
reserved if possible for reading or letter writing but as the weather grew
, 0 ^ er 911(1 hotter, I found it more and more difficult to concentrate at that
,° Ur on the ma -tter in hand, particularly after an hour’s Hindi beforehand, and
ne soporific tones of my teacher.
Jane's 21st Birthday was on the 7th May 19^0, but her mother could not
0 st there in time, and there v/ere no other relatives within hundreds of miles.