One of the Community

' It never struck me as odd that Father Christmas should arrive on an elephant, or a camel, or a railway engine.' For Irene Green it was all part of the pleasure of growing up in India. Her father was English. He'd been a soldier - ' My mother was coffee coloured and when I was born she was very pleased I was "off-white" and had fair hair. In an Anglo-Indian family when a child is born like that they say "a fairy was at her birth" .. IRENE GREEN - now Mrs Irene Edwards - tells of the pride and prejudices of childhood in the much-maligned Anglo-Indian community and her adventurous time as a nursing sister on the North West Frontier in the early 30s.