Chapter 1

After sitting his Sandhurst examinations in January 1918, he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army unattached list.13 The same year, he sailed from Devonport to Bombay from where he travelled overland to Wellington, near Madras, to begin his training as an officer cadet. There is an undated autobiographical note in Hardman's hand, relating to this period, in which he refers to an ... ................
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