Mike's war years

Unknown year in the decade of the 1940s (year uncertain)

Narrative of Michael Norbury's war years in India and abroad, starting from 1939. The narrative desribes various events from his training days to fighting in the war front. He also expressed his views about Hitler's actions, racism in the British Indian Army and widespread of diseases like malaria, and typhus.

Michael Norbury's emergecy officer number was EC 133, he was one of the first emergency officers in the British Indian Army. Geographic locations discussed in the textual record: Prayagraj (Allahabad), India; Belagavi (Belgaum), India; Mirzapur, India; Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Imphal, India; Assam, India; Kabaw Valley, Mayanmar (Burma); Irrawaddy River, Mayanmar (Burma); Karachi, Pakistan; El Adam, North Africa

4 p. of textual records

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