NAM.1996-10-31-3

Third of three cassette tapes: Oral history interview with Lt Col Robert John Going who joined the Army in 1936 and went to India, serving his ULIA year with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment at Nowshera. He then joined the Hyderabad Regiment and served with it for the spells on the North West Frontier at Razmak, 1939-1944, broken by deployment in Iraq 1941-1942. In 1945 Going's battalion, of which he was Commander in Chief to Col Shrinagesh (one of the Indian Bn's Co's), went to Burma and helped flush the Japanese from the Pegu Yomas. After August 1945 the battalion helped clear the Chinese from Burma. In 1947 Going joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, ending his service with the corps in Kenya 1964-1967. Interview conducted on 17 September 1996. (Transcript Available)

India, North West Frontier (1937-1945), World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)