Burma

Reg Stone: Experience in India

We sailed round Ceylon, through the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay eventually docking at...

How My Dad Spent His 21st Birthday

British and Indian troops had defeated a Japanese offensive during the ferocious defence of Kohima, in...

The Tamarind Crucifixion

Lewis of the 5th Brigade, the 7th Indian Division, the 14th Army, relaxed squirming downwards and breathing...

A Highland Chindit

At dawn the next day Lieutenant Duncan Menzies volunteered to take a four-man patrol back into the village...

The Tamarind Crucifixion PART 2

While the lightning zipped and crackled and the thunder rolled in giant drumbeats, Lewis was intently...

1939/45 War Experiences of Lieutenant Denis G.F. Gudgeon

10 January 1943: The battalion travelled by train to Shubri on the Brahmaputra River, thence by stern wheel...

tom clifford - the war years 3

At some point during his time in Burma dad came under fire in an aircraft and was wounded -. Dad had 6...

Burma before the Japanese Invasion

This went on for a few weeks until Dad attended a high level meeting in Rangoon one day and came home to...

They Came at Us Yelling “ Bansai” Waving Swords and Charging

April/May 1942 I joined the convoy at Liverpool and had a 9 week voyage via South Africa to Bombay Spent a...

Christmas in Burma

Having settled into our new LG at Thetkegyin, on Christmas Eve, 1944, five information sorties were carried...

DAD'S WAR

Dad could all too readily relate to the climate and terrain challenges Vietnam soldiers faced, along with...

Victor Walkley-Wartime Memories

Japanese printed their own money.The Burmese would carry all their money by way of valuables with them, and...

A British Boy in Wartime Burma

In 1942 two Japanese divisions advanced into Burma, accompanied by the Burma National Army of Aung San,...

Winged Chariots -Part 8: Through Valleys of Death

An hour into the flight back after the bombing marshalling yards at Mandalay on the night of 14/15 January...

Return to Burma

Major Maxwell RM., who I knew, and Sgt/Major Smith belonged to a SOG party that had landed by canoe from a...

A Bombardier in Burma

Just north of the River Irrawaddy we joined the 28th Jungle Field Regiment who shortly reverted to the 28th...

War Service Abroad as a Wireless Operator

We sailed north past Scotland and onto Canada, landed some troops at Belize then towards Africa, we were...

Brothers in Arms

Henry was four years older than John. A few days after he was due to report to Wales, two policemen knocked...

All Things Must Pass

Although being a driver/dispatch rider, my main job was as batman-driver to our Signals Officer, Second...

Burma Road

From Calcutta we went to Dimapur and from there we boarded a lorry to take us to Imphal via Kohima. We were...

Getting back from Burma with a car

During their time in the UK General Slim was driven in a Daimler, and when the orders came to go to Burma,...

Siege of Imphal (Kipper Box) - Part 2

After all the hard work spent in preparing dug outs we were moved the next morning to Imphal Main all...

West Yorkshire Regiment

The West Yorkshire were part of the 9th Indian Brigade 5th Indian Division the 8th Army. March arrived and...

I Was There - Part 2

Off Cape Bon in the Mediterranean Sea, Nazi torpedo bombers swooped on our convoy, sinking several ships....

9 Border and "Pots and Pans"

C Coy less Revells platoon still down the road, set off to escort sappers, who were to sweep the road for...

Postcards from the Burma Railway

When work resumed on the railway the British officer complained to the Japanese that the remaining men were...