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3 unusual facts about James Howard Williams


James Howard Williams

But in October 1942 he joined the staff of the Eastern Army (later the Fourteenth Army as Elephant Advisor to the Elephant Company of the Royal Indian Engineers.

A film Bandoola was planned in 1956 by Hecht-Lancaster and United Artists; it was to have been filmed in Ceylon from November that year with Ernest Borgnine and Sophia Loren in the leading roles.

Bandoola (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953) (Bandoola, named after General Maha Bandoola, was one of the elephants he knew; the content complements that of Elephant Bill)



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