The Maturing Sun: An Army Nurse in India, 1942-1945

by Angela Bolton

The members of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (now Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) played a vital role tending the sick and wounded soldiers in every theatre of the Second World War.

Genres: India

Paperback

First published May 1, 1987

Reviews

[GrabAsia · Rating 4 out of 5]

there are many memoirs of life in colonial India, but this one is interesting as the author confesses to unchaperoned outings, and a 'love affair" with a married man...also the 1st edition has a beautiful dust jacket with an illustration by David Gentleman of a red cross river steamer on the Brahmaputra in Assam, on some of which the author served during WW2. There are accounts of officers who voted labour in 1945 as they were worried about jobs back in the UK, and how the end of the war was an anti-climax for the author at least as people were worried about life back home. Even though india became independant just 2 years after the author left, the colonial caste system was v evident throughout her narrative. Lastly, as i am from Assam, it was interesting to hear of the authors life there and the rest of the north-eastern India, Bengal & what is now Bangladesh.