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Age
19 Years

9th March 1943

At 0200 this morning I was awoken by pulling into another station. I bought some oranges and bananas and had a mug of tea. I slept until 0500, when a shrill lady’s voice asked if there was any room [European] so I gave her my bunk.

I then slept until 7-15. The sun was rising then, and the country we were passing, was similar to that between Liverpool and London. The air was wonderfully cool. After a wash and brush up we paid another visit to the restaurant car and had an excellent breakfast for 2/2.

-10.45

We passed through DAHAURA, 10.55, JAKHAURA – 11.45. BIJROATHA at 11.50.

For lunch I had soup, chicken, curry and rice, cold meat and salad, mixed fruit and cream.

-14.30

At this time we reached GALIHOR. We had to get into another compartment at Jhansi. It contained a man, his wife and three small children I learned fat they came from Vancouver and we’re sort of missionaries. There were also 3 Indian soldiers guarding a handcuffed man.

DHOLPUR, our next stop, came after seeing several miles of undulating Sandhills something after the style of valley of 1000 hills in Durban.

After supposedly reserving a compartment on the next day’s train, I took a tonga wala to the Taj Mahal at 10 annas an hour.

It was a four mile drive but there was little to see beyond trees and a few residential buildings.

The Taj presented a wonderful sight, and I found that its chief beauty lay in the perfect proportions and the material used [white marble].

I spent about 3 hours there before it closed.

I had some supper in the station and saw a yank there, so asked him what part he came from. He said NJM. We got talking and he told me of the misunderstandings between the British and Americans over the increased prices in India. He said they should have been issued with a priceless.

I turned in on a wooden bench in the waiting room, at 2330.