The 2nd battalion South Lancashire Regiment was somewhere near Tiddim in north Burma on Christmas Day 1944-...
He started out on the first Chindit expedition of 1943 lead by Orde Wingate, I am unsure of the objective...
He never spoke about the war but he did return with some amazing portraits of Burmese "locals"....
The following account was written by Godfrey Pegg and added to the archive by staff at the St. John's...
During the capture of Miketilla, the airstrip was occupied by Japanese forces, 28 Squadron moved to the...
I was taken to a tent hospital; the doctor thought I had been shot because he saw bandages around my neck,...
One day a Japanese bomber came over and hs friend tried to shoot it down....
By daylight we realized that the enemy had dug in adjacent to our trenches. In the meantime I was returning...
My uncle was captured at Singapore and was sent to work on the Japanese railway line at Sonkurai... It was...
On 4 November 1944, whilst serving in Burma, my grandfather William Ellis sent a telegraph to his wife to...
My father,Chiller Starns, was fighting with the Durhams in Burma... Moved forward and took a hill, no...
This is not a long story,I was a pow in a camp and worked on the railway, as did so meny others......
I jettisoned the 180 gallon overlod tank and pancaked down near Nyaung-Bin-Wah... I spent the day in the...
When I was young I used to go to my grandmothers small village in Punjab, Pakistan. The lady that lived...
My grandfather, Fred Eastham, died when I was about 12 years old, so I don't know much about what...
In 1940, My Grandad was sent out to fight in Burma, there were no serious injuries for all I know, but he...
We moved from Mandalay upto Taunge on jungle training and then onto the Salveen river where we had to hold...
Well i was talking to my grandad the other day and he was telling me about his past in burma and he...
During the war my mother, grandmother and I went to a cinema in Curzon Street to see a newsreel of my...
At this CCS we joined up with two English wives trying to get back to their husbands in Burma... 3 of the...
However, the new Burmese government had an army whose senior officers were almost all Karen. The Burmese...
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