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The entries inside the book show that it wasn’t a PAY BOOK in the usual sense,
it recorded the sums withdrawn locally in Rupees between 26 April 1945 and 16
April 1946. The sums varied from 100 Rupees to 1,000 in one case at intervals
that varied from one day to more than a month. The book also records that pay
was also being sent to ‘Barclays Bank, 267 High Road, Leyton, London E10.’ The book records that a cholera injection was administered on 26 July 1945. There is no clue as to why the cover of the book is rubber stamped ‘14 MAY 1946’ but one might speculate that the pencilled comment ‘Durban Castle’ refers to the Union castle liner which was used a a troop ship at the end of the war. |
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This RELEASE BOOK contains nothing very interesting apart from the rubber stamp ‘No. 104 P.D.C. 26 May 1946, HEDNESFORD’. P.D.C. stood for Personnel Dispersal Centre and Hednesford is a small Staffordshire town near Cannock. |