Burma

A Wartime Sojourn into Burmese with Six Sappers

Here we spent an imteresting time providing a better watering hole for the mules, a farewell plaque for...

The Burma Campaign

Sinclair Ramsay Atkins became ill with dysentery in January 1944 and was sent to a hospital in Imphal. That...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Burma

I was in a convoy, I was on a Smilax, which was escorting 13 minesweepers to Burma. Suddenly I looked on...

NAGAS - “THE GREAT LITTLE GENTLEMEN OF THE JUNGLE”

The Nagas were tribesmen who lived in the jungle covered mountains between Assam and Burma. During 1944...

Burma Sadness

Tom was a Marine Commando who did many sortie's in his war years but there was one particular hill in...

A German POW Doctor Saved My Life

They were Mabel, Joan, Beatrice, Margaret, Dennis and finally Les, my dad. The base had a POW camp and a...

My Father: One of the Forgotten Army

My father went to Burma before I was born. When he was dying of cancer, my dad said that he had faced...

Local Hero from Scotland Road

I would like other people to read my fathers story from WW2 he was born in Rose Place off Scotland road...

Bishop's Waltham to Burma!

He was posted to Burma and travelled in the Caernavon Castle to Bombay, India. He finally arrived by the...

Milk in a Tube!

After a while we had British Jungle Rations; and soon after we had bread as well; they dropped bread for...

RAF Special Squadrons

On 22 January 1945 RAG Liberator KH-277 of 358 Squadron took off from its base at Digri, North India....

A Close Shave in Toungoo

I was standing at the open door between the crew's quaters in the nose and the main part of the...

C.E.V.

At this stage in the war our Workshops Unit, camped between Prome and Mawchi, was very short of vehicles....

Jungle Work: A Civil Engineer in Burma

In 1941 he was taken into the Indian Engineers as an advisor and worked on the Burma Road between Imphal...

The Palace at Jaipur

For I would have to go to the Naval leave camp and they would have to go to the army camp, which...

The Forgotten Army

The 14th Army was the British Army in Burma... People talk about armies and 8th army and what have you...

28 Fighter Squadron and the Siege of Kohima

From Cape Town, we went to Bombay and then we were posted to Jamshedpur on a balloon squadron. We were...

Fighting in the Far East by Bert Wright

Story told to Story gatherer at Duxford VE event. In Burma I was in the 7th Indian Division....

Anecdotes from a Disillusioned Warrior

It took 2 months to reach northern Burma, on a captured German banana boat, sailing in convoy from Glasgow,...

Lancashire Miner in the Chindit Operation

My uncle Bill was a miner from Atherton Lancashire who joined up as a regular in 1938, he was sent to...

Just a Swig of Whisky-Part 1

One day in 1944 a call of nature found me sitting in the makeshift toilet on a bamboo cane with a trough...

VE DAY IN THE FAR EAST

Two patrols of platoon strength were pushed out to track ambush positions about two miles north of the...

Harnam Singh

Got training at 3 centres at Lucknow, Babina and Ferozpur under Command Colonel H.M.Tallaq and colonel...

"The Air War": Memories of Flying Officer Graham Skellam

Graham Skellam was trained in 1943 in South Africa on Tiger Moths at No. 6 Elementary Flying School,...

Burma Bound

Singapore Year: 1941 It was a long hot stuffy day as A.E Clarke born and bred in Birmingham, Bert to his...

Arakan Story

In 1942 I went to India for further training and in 1943 we were given the task of capturing the Island of...