Given by Mrs. S. Battye
Memoir: ‘Miss-Sahib’ by Desiree Battye. TS. 225pp.
Mrs Battye as Desiree Dartford was Personal Assistant to Sir Denholm Fraser, Resident of Kashmir, Sialkot and Hunza. Descriptions of Residency life. Marriage to Army Officer. Army life in Quetta during war years – training regiment in Roorkee – Bangalore Residency with Frasers (Resident in Mysore) for summer. Mysore Durbar and procession described and difficult voyage home in 1944.
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