Forster's English relatives enrolled him at Calcutta’s La Martinière School until around 1921, when he was sent to England to complete his education at Lancing College in Sussex.
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When a ship (such as La Loire or La Martinière) arrived from Saint-Martin-de-Ré, the first order of the day was to separate the "chevaux de retour" (literally "returned horses", but meaning the escaped prisoners) and the recidivists from the rest, to send them to the Îles du Salut, from whose shores escape was considered impossible.