Responses to my last......
HighTow
Thanks for your interest, my own research about Chedworth has not brought up any more clues about why Chedworth is on his Unit Record Card date 15.9.43. Little Rissington is where he was anyway with 6 (P) AFU. I thought it might be a hospital admission because the letter (capital) A preceeds it. The next entry, (crossed out) may be 1517 BAT Flight (Blind, or Beam Approach Training. Thereafter he is on his way to India.
harrym
Your posts, IMHO are a masterclass of reportage, so I thank you for for your info. that Korangi Creek was the terminal at Karachi for the Flying Boats - and not a million miles from RAF Mauripur. Paula (my ex-BOAC Purser partner) tells me that they still used to go out on the "Bunda" boats from "The Rest House" in Karachi in the 1960s. Allahabad is on the confluence of the Ganga and (an)other river. Gwalior has a big reservoir to the west so that was probably their "alighting" point as the Flying Boat folk would describe it. Flying in the lower levels, (pre. pressurised A/C) in the intense heat of India must have been a "lumpy" thing to endure, but to then experience sea-sickness would really have taken the gloss of the seeming glamour of the "BOAC takes good care of you" experience.
Ian B-B
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