IN CONVOY FROM BOMBAY TO SINGAPORE. FEBRUARY 1942, ON BOARD THE TROOPSHIP DEVONSHIRE DURING PASSAGE FROM BOMBAY TO SINGAPORE AND BATAVIA (DJAKARTA) AND RETURN, IN WHAT WAS PROBABLY THE LAST CONVOY TO REACH SINGAPORE WITH TROOPS AND STORES. APART FROM ONE AIR RAID BY JAPANESE PLANES WHILE PASSING THROUGH THE BANGKA STRAIT, THE JOURNEY WAS UNEVENTFUL. - HMS IRIS being towed on the return trip from Batavia to Trincomalee by SS MALANDHA

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