Map of Bombay showing places of interest and entertainment. This was enclosed in the 'welcome to Bombay' booklet that my Father received in 1943.
- Contributed by
- Genevieve
- People in story:
- Philip Roy Gallop
- Location of story:
- Bombay
- Background to story:
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:
- A8595994
- Contributed on:
- 17 January 2006
My Father, Philip Roy Gallop, served in Bombay — and upon his arrival in 1943 he was issued with a book called “Welcome to Bombay”.
It has lots of useful local information, included a map with the ‘out of bounds’ sections.
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the 91ȱ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Keith Gallop who very kindly shared it with us. It has been added to the site with Mr Gallop’s permission and he fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
See more of Keith Gallop’s family's stories:
- Safeguarding the secrecy of military operations
- Marlborough Theatre — “Now or Never”
- A Christmas Telegram
- Philip Roy Gallop
- Royal Air Force — Service and Release Book
- Welcome to Bombay
- Vultures
- Selling fruit
- A HUGE Bat!
- A watering hole
- Mountains over Calcutta
- Kibbuy — Sport after work
- The Watching Tower, Kibbuy
- Dining Hall, Kibbuy
- The entrance to the Church of Annunciation, Nazareth
- Internal view of the Church of Annunciation, Nazareth
- Looking out over Nazareth
- The Taj Mahal, Agra, India
- Nainital by moonlight
- The hills at Nainital
- A snatched view of the road up to Nainital
- ‘Moodi Wallah’
- Two tiny tots
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