NigG (#939),
... his demotion was common to many who stayed on in the RAF after the war
Not a "demotion", by any means. Acting rank is tied to the post, if that vanishes, or you hand over to someone else, so your rank vanishes with it. It happened to me when I left India.
As Chugalug put it at the time: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away".
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KJ994 (#338),
From Darjeeling.....Not a Gurkha, then, but close geographically and ethnically. Brave, trustworthy and loyal, the very best sort of bearer you could find. Far superior to the locals, I would've thought.
Thanks for your confirmation of the pure-white status of a "Miss-Sahib" in the days of the Raj. "Missy-Sahib" has a faint Chinese/Singaporean flavour (never been to either place, have I got the right idea ?
Danny.