[BITList] The Key to Calcutta, circa 1945

[HUGH]

John,

A fascinating look at the customs and standards of the past.  I noted the 
two clubs for enlisted men of different colours.  My father would have been 
in Calcutta now and then in that period - his regiment, the Royal Scots 
Fusiliers, fought alongside the US, supporting those creating/repairing 
roads and railways during the push south in Burma, and they were moved north 
for periods of recuperation. We used to have a photo of dad and some 
colleagues in a rest camp, all looking like starving refugees, ribs sticking 
out.  He said they were "force fed" oranges, and from then on he never ate 
an orange.  He also told me there was a sign outside a place, maybe 
Rawalpindi (he was there in 1945) saying : No Soldiers or Dogs Admitted.

Hugh.