"Gert and Daisy" - the Sunderlands in Burma

Discussion in 'Burma & India' started by Hebridean Chindit, Apr 10, 2011.

  1. MacKenzie14

    MacKenzie14 Member

    Is it possible to source this edition of Dekho magazine at all?

    That letter from his Mother & the New Testament Bible were with my hero to the very end and now in safe keeping by his eldest child, my Mother.
     
  2. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Give me a few days to have an ask around Sharon, I'll get back with news soon.
     
  3. MacKenzie14

    MacKenzie14 Member

    Much appreciated.
     
  4. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Hi Sharon,

    I think we might be in luck with the Dekho magazine. Do you want to drop me an email using the hotmail email address found on the last page of the Chindit Society newsletter and we can work out how I can send you the magazine when I receive it from my source. Look forward to hearing from you shortly.

    Steve
     
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  5. MacKenzie14

    MacKenzie14 Member

    * Sadly I was very much mistaken as it seems these 2 items plus Granda's complete bar of original military medals, cap badges,chindit regiment badge, the life story I typed out, the green beret, his military ID disk.... the lot was all removed by greedy members of the family. The same selfish individuals who did not give Granda the send off he deserved. I will never forgive them for ignoring Granda's funeral wishes nor these truly despicable acts I am now learning about. *
     
  6. MacKenzie14

    MacKenzie14 Member

    Brilliant,thanks to all
     
  7. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    Yes, I have been somewhat unavailable...
    No, the project is not shelved...
    Just going through a series of significant changes of personal circumstances at present...
    Most significant is Gina, my fiancé, who died suddenly on 18th October...
    The photo is of the pair of us in her home town, Essex, Vermont, in June this year...
     

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  8. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    These photographs may be of interest. They are not necessarily of the two Sunderlands used to evacuate wounded chindits. The photographs were taken at R.A.F. Koggala.

    Kollaga Lake air craft.JPG

    Koggala Lake Aircraft.JPG
     
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  9. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Some more photographs.

    Koggala airstrip and lake.JPG

    Koggala station flight.JPG
     
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  10. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    Where did you find these, Simon...?
    Not seen them before...
     
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  11. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Not posted by me mate, all thanks to High Wood. Hope all is well.
     
  12. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Ken,

    They came from one of several albums belonging to 103679 F/O Frederick Jack Bussell. He appears to have been stationed at R.A.F. Koggala for most of 1943 - 1945.

    It was only when I searched for R.A.F. Koggala on this forum that I realised that there was a tenuous link to Gert and Daisy.

    I can post several more photographs but they will divert this thread away from its subject matter. I should perhaps start a new thread.

    Simon.
     
  13. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    Sorry Simon... name mix-up... o_O
    Perfectly valid to post them here as it fits the profile for Sunderlands and 230 Squadron... their operational base throughout the period...
    I know the Squadron would appreciate a copy for their files...
    It's the 43-45 info that's been lost to the Squadron... the belief is that the relevant line-book was borrowed for a book that was never completed or published, and the person has passed on...
    We are still hopeful the book will re-appear one day...
    I'll see if we have any mention of F/O Bussell in any of the Squadron paperwork or my own notation...
     
  14. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    My error, me ol' China... now messaged... doing the best I can... :)
     
  15. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    Simon... the photo of the group of Sunderlands port-side on... front left is one of them, from the identifier on the side, but this could be "O" or "Q"...
     
  16. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    I am more than happy to let the Squadron have a copy of all the photographs in the album. Do you have a contact that can email me in due course?
    I will get the magnifying glass out and get back to you regarding the identifying letters.

    More photographs can be seen in this thread which I started before I had spotted the Chindit connection.

    Koggala, Ceylon.
     
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  17. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    I'll PM, HW...
     

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