He turned to writing and soon hadĪrticles and short stories published in many well-known American He lived for a while forty miles from New York City. (1945), and shortly afterwards went to the U.S.A., which he had visited in 1938 and liked. Masters retired from the Army in 1948 as Lieutenant-Colonel with theĭ.S.O. Later, as Chief of Staff to the 19th Indian Division, he fought at the Singu Bridgehead, theĬapture of Mandalay and at Toungoo, and on the Mawchi Road.Īfter the war he was assigned to teach mountain and jungle warfare at the Staff College, Camberley. He left his division in 1942 for training at Staff College and became a Brigadier Major with General He sawĪctive service in Waziristan and Razmak in 1936-38, in Baluchistan in 1939 and, after the outbreak of war, in Own Ghurka Rifles, then serving on the North-West Frontier. To India in 1934 as a 2nd lieutenant with the 1st Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, a year later joining the Prince of Wales He was the son of John Masters, a Captain in the 16th Rajput regiment, and his wife Ada (nee Coulthard).Īfter being educated in England at Wellington (1928-33), where he won a prize cadetship to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1933-34), he returned In Calcutta on 26 October 1914, John Masters was of the fifth generation of hisįamily to live, serve and work in India.

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