Some readers of "Memories of Malcolm Baug” (Parsiana, August 7-20, 2023), were especially intrigued by a wartime episode I mentioned in it concerning my late father, Pessie Cooper. I had brought it up fleetingly, only to make a point. But the readers wanted to know more. In looking for details I discovered that my recollection of family lore about that incident was not entirely accurate.
So, this is both an amplification and a correction.
During World War II my father served in the British colonial Royal Indian Navy. I wrote that when his ship was sunk off the coast of Burma, he......