One of my latest enquiries via the Chindit Society. Does anyone have any extra information about how this soldier died on the 17th January 1944?...
Hi - I am writing a semi fictional account on this formation. The CO was Lt Col Edward and this Battalion was a mix of Sikhs, Pathans, Dogras and...
Evening all. A common request, I'm sure, but I've finally allowed my stubbornness to subside. Since April 2019, after my late-grandfather's...
My mums brother was a bit of a dark horse in the family and it was said he went out to Malaya before the war to work on the plantations. He was...
Hi I hope someone can help me. I am researching a Royal Artillery Gunner in WW2. His service record shows that on 03/11/1944 he deployed to...
A friend wants to go on this March 2020 tour, but the tour operators are struggling to get the minimum numbers needed; which has happened before,...
[ATTACH] Roll of Honour for The Lincolnshire Regiment August 1939 – November 1946 & The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment December 1946 - December...
I've just been helping out another Chindit family in researching their soldier who served with the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers in Burma in 1944 as...
My dad - Terence Spooner (14566679) enlisted in March 1943. (age 19) His war records give him as joining the Dorsets before being transferred to...
The following shoulder-worn cloth formation badge comes from a photo of an officer of The Burma Regiment. I'm uncertain of the identity of the...
Gents, Tonight I downloaded the U.S. Army Signal Corps film I ordered from a vendor who digitized the original motion picture film for me from...
Hallo everyone. This is the first time I have posted, although I have been reading all your wonderful info on this forum for the past year....
Hi. Does anyone know anything about this post mark used in India in around 1940. The letter was posted from Maymyo, Burma. The post mark...
1130983 Gunner Thomas Archer Williamson of 129th Field Regt, RA Presumed killed and commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial. Son of Edward William...
Very sad news, Edward Price Jones. M.M., perhaps the very last Burma veteran of the 2nd battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers has passed away age 99. I...
Hi I have just joined to learn more about my dads experiences in WW2. He was in the 1st Battalion Beds and Herts serving in the Middle East and...
Given Shiny 9th's recent post on unit memorial to the 36th Div in the Arakan I thought it would be good to have a place where we could record Unit...
Hi Does anyone have any info on the 1st Bn Cameronians in the retreat from Burma? I have been looking online and there is little - equally the...
I found and scanned this U.S. Army Signal Corps photo at our National Archives II, College Park, Maryland, on 17 June 2019. Resized to fit here....
Any experts on the Burma . I'm trying to track the movements of Flight Lieutenant Kenneth MacVicar "B"Flight, 28 Squadron, as he tried to evade...
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