17thBGH RAMC in India

[Joy Dean]

My father, in the RAMC, was in the 17th British General Hospital in India in WW2. In recent times, particularly the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, I started looking at maps of India and Burma; I don't know why I had not done so before now! And it struck me just how many thousands of miles patients would have had to be transported from Burma to the Field Hospitals in India. Also I wondered why the 17th BGH was in India and not Burma.

Recently I bought a book called The Campaign in Burma which I found very helpful and interesting especially some of the maps in it, being able to place locations.