The file contains four letters: From Dewitt Ellinwood to Dr Syed Mahmud, Aligarh, dated 26th February 1969, regarding his research project on the experience of India during the First World War, and asking if it would be possible to visit him. From Dewitt Ellinwood to General K M Cariappa, dated...
Questions concerning Indian soldiers in World War Two with answers provided by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Robert Douglas Grey (1909-2004) of Skinner's Horse (Duke of York's Own Cavalry)
Summary of an interview with Colonel Bedi, Bangalore
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Interviewed by Dr DeWitt Ellinwood on 15th February 1970. Bedi was one of the second group of Indians to go to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1919, and the summary mostly concerns his experiences of being there.
Interviewed in Peshawar on 30th June 1982. Handwritten summary. The interview appears to have been recorded on tape (there are references to the tape in the summary). Hab Khalil joined the Indian Medical Corps in 1940, and during the Second World War served in Iraq and Egypt. He was captured b...
Interviewed in Islamabad on 16th June 1982. Brief handwritten summary. The interview appears to have been recorded on tape (there are references to the tape in the summary), and it is not clear if Dr Ellinwood or someone else conducted the interview. Mohammad Ayub was commissioned in the India...
Interviewed in Peshawar on 22nd June 1982. Brief handwritten summary. The interview appears to have been recorded on tape (there are references to the tape in the summary), and it is not clear if Dr Ellinwood or someone else conducted the interview. Bahadur Sher joined the Indian Army in 1941,...