Joyce's War by Joyce Ffoulkes Parry

Author:Joyce Ffoulkes Parry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750963282
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

1942

Bombay – Basrah – Batavia – Colombo – Karachi – Massawa Bombay – Calcutta, 47th British General Hospital

New Year’s Day

And now we are heading for the Persian Gulf, bound for Basrah! We slid gracefully out of Bombay harbour at 7am last Monday. Mona and I got up early to wave to Evelyn in the Dorsetshire as it moved off. Last night, knowing it was useless to go to bed, we were dragged down to a party in McDonald’s cabin. It was a two-foot squeeze and there must have been quite twenty of us there. It was hot and dusty and extremely noisy, to put it mildly, and we thought we could escape after a modest hour or so. But alas for our guile, we were still there when someone rang a large brass bell and we gathered round and sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and everyone kissed everyone else at midnight. I got down to my cabin about 1am and started a letter to Ken in Cyprus, where I hope he had a cheerful happy celebration and didn’t think too much. One shouldn’t think too much, I’ve discovered. Such a nice surprise last night too: there was a book on my table when I went down at midnight and a letter. It was from Tich, dear Tich, who, although a Hindu, is much more of a Christian than most people I’ve met in my life. In the note he had written Tagore’s lines:

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