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PARTITION - additional recordings /
Andrew Whitehead I
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CD-18
Brigadier Kuldip Chadha
Hounslow West, TW4 7RB
Got in tocuh via Stan Menezes and Patrie Emerson
A turbanned Sikh - family from near Rawalpindi, but also had property in Srinagar.
Bom c 1920, joined army in 1942, and in 1947 was a Captain in the Frontier Force
Rifles. Airlifted to Srinagar in a Dakota on October 28 1947, the second day of the
airlift. Advanced to Baramulla with Bogey Sen, on to Uri, and from there to Poonch.
Was on other fronts in Kashmir in 1948. Spent, in all, about a year in Kashmir in
1947-8.
Met at his home on 19 July 2002 - emphasised his loyalty to Sen, and that Harbaksh
Singh’s assertion that Sen was a ‘funk’ for failing to advance from Uri to Domel was
quite unfair because Sen wanted to head to Domel but was specifically ordered to
divert to Poonch. Says damage in Baramulla largely restricted to properties on the
main road - didn’t go to the convent. A little incidental information.
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