Jonathan Schofield on Nostr: …4/n My mum was born in Quetta in 1932 – then India, now Pakistan. Her dad had ...

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My mum was born in Quetta in 1932 – then India, now Pakistan. Her dad had poor heart health from the mid 1930s onwards, retired from the (Raj) Army to the UK, but was then called up again in 1940.

My mum, her sister and mother followed him back out to India later that year.

But in Indian heat, his heart could not maintain his utility to the war effort. He was re-retired and the family moved to the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu, for its temperate climate, to see out the war