![]() ![]() A few months after beginning his posting he contracted malaria and was sent to the military hospital at Lebong, just north of Darjeeling. He was stationed at Barrackpore, some way up the Hooghly River. ![]() Snellgrove arrived in Bombay in June 1943, and travelled cross-country to Calcutta. Thereafter he attended various intelligence courses and further training at the War Office in London, from where he requested a posting to India. He attended the Officers Cadet Training Unit in the Scottish seaside town of Dunbar, and was commissioned as an infantry officer. In 1941 he was called up to do his military service as a member of the Royal Engineers. He went on to study German and French at Southampton University. Snellgrove was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and educated at Christ's Hospital near Horsham in West Sussex. ![]()
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