“A strange war Burma, India & Afghanistan 1914-1919

foreword by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu”—cover page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary: “On 12 December 1914, a convoy of troop ships sailed from Southampton for India, carrying Territorial battalions who were to relieve regular units of the British and Indian armies for service in France. My father sailed as Commanding Officer of the 7th Battalion the Hampshire Regiment in the liner Dunera, his unit disembarked at Bombay and took up duties in Secunderabad. Another ship in the convoy, the Ionian, carried the 2

5th Battalion of the Somerset light infantry to Burma and on board was not only and Company Quarter Master Sergeant Ewens, on whose recollections of India and Burma in World War one this book is based”—foreword.

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