India - Deolali - British Garrison
British Garrison at Deolali, in Nashik District in the state of Maharashtra, India - British soldiers and Officers outside the Billiard Room. The name of the town is the source of the British slang noun doolally tap, loosely meaning camp fever, referring to the apparent madness of men waiting for ships back to Britain. By the 1940s this had been shortened to doolally
Picture No
10419412
Media ID
46555800
Size
5023px x 3197px
(3.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910s
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Billiard Deolali Devlali Doolally Garrison Maharashtra Nashik
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