Geriaviator apologises for his latest contribution, but he was only five when he wrote it. I've been following up Ricardian's wonderful find of the 1924 Poona map but I cannot locate the site of our bungalows, which of course are long gone but I expected the quarry alongside them to be still visible on satellite as it was big enough to have a narrow-gauge railway climbing up from its floor. The Wagholi quarries still operating are a long way from Kirkee which was the original British cantonment and still contains the graves of many Army officers and their family members in the Holkar Cemetery.
I found my letter from the past in a long-forgotten book dating us in Poona 1946-47. We must have left for RAF Drigh Road, Karachi soon after it was written in May as Partition came in August and we were homeward bound before then. This explains why I remember so little about Karachi compared to Poona.