My Dear Walter

From a description on a Google Books page

"My Dear Walter is the work of Richard Wethered Morland-Hughes - Portland as he was universally known to his beloved 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles - who died in action in Italy in 1944. In two parts, the first consists of the series of illustrated letters he wrote to his teenage brother Walter during his first home leave in 1937 and his return to India via Canada and the Far East. In itself, as General Sir John Hackett writes in his Foreword, it is a delightful memento of a time now moving back into history, the period of the British Raj. Portland's letters and his drawings are full of charm, wise and witty observations which draw the reader back to them again and again. His views on the curiosities met with on his travels, whether gently lustful shipboard ladies, the inner secrets of the willow pattern plate or the English themselves, are as fresh and entertaining today as they were to the young Walter fifty years ago. The second part, 'Off the Record', reproduces pages from Portland's sketchbook of that name in which he depicted various incidents in the life of his Regiment from the declaration of war in 1939 until just before its departure from the Middle East for Italy in 1943. Despite their more serious nature as the observations of a working soldier, they cast an unquenchably humorous light on the people and events which made him smile during those arduous times. Taken as a whole the two parts of My Dear Walter, so different in their subject matter, give a unique and rounded picture of a world, a regiment and one of its heroes we should not forget."