D.A.D

I know virtually nothing about my father's youth, his volunteering for the army in 1939, aged 26, and much less about his time in India & Burma serving in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

Like so many of his generation who experienced the World Wars, he didn't like to talk about it and never of his own accord. I was brought up not to be nosey, so the combination meant it remains a mystery.

One very sketchy event was at some point, I think in Burma and at the very height of the Japanese offensive, he had to take out a small patrol. When they tried to return to camp a few days later, they couldn't get back as the outlooks were so nervous, they shot at every twig that moved. His patrol were forced to sit it out for weeks. In the meantime his mother in the UK got a message that her son was "Missing, presumed dead"!

I don't know what his appointment as D.A.D. ( D.A. Q.M.G) meant. I have learnt the abbreviations may include:
Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General
Deputy Adjutant and Quarter Master General

Wiki says about the UK Army: "Historically each formation had a Deputy Quartermaster-General (DQMG), Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG) or Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), depending on its size."

Given the Far East conflict had ended several months before, I suspect his appointment and duties were connected with the winding down of operations, an experience which probably came of use later on in his work career.