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Welch Calypso (Stevens Tom( In March 1952 Tom Stevens sailed from Southampton aboard the troopship Dilwara, one of the last generations of British soldiers to serve in the West Indies. Tom s candid…
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Welch Calypso (Stevens Tom(
In March 1952 Tom Stevens sailed from Southampton aboard the troopship Dilwara, one of the last generations of British soldiers to serve in the West Indies. Tom s candid memoir describes his wartime childhood, disrupted by evacuation, the Swansea blitz, patchy schooling, his father s absence at war and his parents separation. How did I get here?, he asks.
Vividly recalled, Tom s memoir reveals how a young Welshman grew up in the final years of colonial Jamaica, recalling the complex relationships he enjoyed with its people. He evokes with an engaging honesty the life of an infantryman in the garrison of Jamaica, the pleasures of tropical service and the temptations faced by a young man in uniform. Tom candidly recounts the two amorous adventures that make his account of his time in the West Indies unique: his infatuation with Elvira, the Belize beauty for whom he risked all by deserting
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