ABSTRACT
Tedder sailed for Singapore aboard the P & O liner Naldera from London on 10 October 1936, accompanied by Rosalinde and two of their children, Mina and John: Dick, the eldest, had just begun his second year at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The long voyage, four blissful weeks at sea, was his second1 – and last – voyage with his dear wife. These weeks at sea mark a high point in Tedder’s personal life. He would enjoy the great comfort of Rosalinde’s daily presence in his new position; he was as yet untroubled by the burdens he knew were awaiting him in ‘the finest strategical position in the whole world’;2 and the Tedders were travelling in unprecedented luxury, dining at the captain’s table and modestly enjoying deferential attention from other passengers.
