PARTITION - additional recordings I Andrew Whitehead I _____________________________________I CD-9 Tom Dykes eldest son of Col. Tom and Biddy Dykes interviewed by Bhavna Kumar in Jo'burg, 22 Jan 2001 Band 2 0'12 - 'just to introduce myself i'm Tom Dykes, eldest son of Lt Col Tom Dykes of the Indian army. He was in one of the Sikh regiments ... a Scotsman, bom and bred in Ediburgh. My family served in India for several generations' 0'35 - 'my mother came out from Eng to Ind as a nurse. My parents met, married during the early part of 2nd World War. I was bom in 1942' 1'06 - 'I think they were fun loving people ... had quite a close rel'ship with my Mum, I think, I didn't see my Dad too much cos he was in the army ... I do rememebr he was a v keen fly fisherman, we used to go fishing sometimes in the hills of Kashmir' 2'08 - memories of Kashmir, staying on houseboat 2'40 - 'adults were always talking about the goings-on... it was v tense, I do rememebr that, and I remmebr well the marching thro the streets, waving banners' 3'32 - 'we went to the convent because my mother was about to have a baby ... and I remember quite well, there was nice countryside all around ... I can remmebr climbing up a nearby hill with my other... we named it windy hill... I remember riding a pony ... I remember my servant Feroze meeting me at the hospital... I remember being carried up the mountains with my mother in a sedan chair' 5T0 - 'there did seem to be tension in the air... and even as a small boy I was aware of it' BAND 4 OTO - 'I have a letter in my possession which was sent by m mother just a few days after James ... was bom; she sent the letter to her sister in England and it must have been one of the last letters out of Baramulla before the invasion; it was a rather poignant letter; my mother sounds very stressed because she didn't have any money, it seems; the cheques she had were not honoured by the bank ... and she didn't have any money to pay the nuns with' 1'38 - 'James was bom 12th October 1947 and it was just a few days after James was bom that the Pathan tribesmen invaded K; B'mula was on their route, and they raided