My Dad was always narked that, after being in Burma and subsequently various parts of India for however long, he found that on V-J day he was transferred to the Indian Army and thus was not eligible for demobilisation. He finally returned in 1948 after 6 years of war service, not including his 2½ years' drafted labour for Daimler in Coventry, but including 2 years spent policing Calcutta during partition, when enlisted men like him were not issued with ammunition. Sheesh, to paraphrase our colonial friends.