Danny, thank you for your message. You are, of course right, rivets - instead of nuts and bolts; still no maintenance.
It was in anticipation of your deep trench latrine that I mentioned the auger. (I remember his asking why we didn't have one for digging them at Scout camp...)
He used to mention the ghastly prickly heat he - and many others - suffered from, and how the only place where relief was available was at the cinema, being as it was air conditioned. The useful piece of advice that if somebody is coming at you with a bayonet you need a .45 not a .38 otherwise he might still kill you after you'd shot him dead.
Mostly it was funny stories, like the American in the hut (?) next to his who was shooting up beer bottles, drunk, one night. (Did you get a lot of Americans staying with the RAF?) Or the blankets that had gone missing from stores and a great kerfuffle ensued until he had the bright idea of redesignating them as "rags, aircraft for the cleaning of" which seemed to cure the problem as they then became expendable.
But why was he always so grateful to the Salvation Army for providing him with cups of tea when he was in India? Didn't he have a wallah to provide them?