McKinney,

I have read in different places that Corbett had property in Africa..........so perhaps he was going there on business.

I have also read that he had shares in one of the big safari firms in Kenya, that he left India in 1947 (??) upon independence (selling his Jeffrey 450/400 to an American plantation manager) and that he managed Tree Tops resort when Princess Elizabeth "climbed a tree a princess and came down a Queen" due to her father dying thereby making her queen.