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...
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...
A recently acquired photograph of the W.O.'s and N.C.O.'s course held at the Chemical Warfare School (India) at Pachmarhi in October 1942. Severn...
Hi all, I'm looking for information on the last operational sorties of the Hawker Hurricane. I'm guessing these were flown in India/Burma against...
Hi, I am currently researching Vivian Stanley Woodward who was initially recommended for a DCM but was awarded the MM in June 1944 for gallantry...
My father was posted with this unit to India in 1945 (Sept - Dec) and then Singapore until Nov 1946. I'm trying to find any information on the...
I continue to decipher the information on my father's service records who served Royal Signals in India and Burma from 1943- 1946 but struggling...
Hi I have just received my fathers service records and was hoping that I could get a recommendation on how best to understand the information...
I am tempted to research an aspect of Partition (September 1947) only recently discovered. In summary: Who were the six British brigades in India...
A friend is researching his late grandfather's wartime service (he may seek help later as several options still exist). In our exchange his...
Hi , im looking to gather information on a relative who served with the north Staffordshire 1st battalion in india between 1939-1943. what I know...
Just returned from a visit to this superb archive which I've not seen mentioned on the forum. It's part of the library of the SOAS University of...
For a little while I've been putting together a Roll of Honour of the men of 130th Field Regiment who didn't come home from the Far East. Thanks...
I have read bits and pieces about the First Arakan in a number of books (Louis Allen, Slim, Michael Hickey, John Moremon), and from what I have...
I'm trying to find out more information on my grandfathers regiment. His Name was Ernest Henry Budd, possibly tenth foot Lincolnshire regiment? I...
My dad managed to scan the originals and I've cropped them and labelled them with any handwritten notes that my grandad, Bert Kadwill, put on the...
'Some of the lads that I spent New Years Day with'.
Hi All, I've had a good look on the forum, but cannot find the locations of the following India based hospitals as of September/November 1944....
An unknown LAC sitting on his presumably packed trunk at the end of his time in India. The back of the photograph has the message, 'Homeward bound'.
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