1st Bn The King's Regiment, (Liverpool), Chindits.

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  1. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Absolutely brilliant, that is exactly what I have been looking for. I already have the pages for "C" Coy and the HQ Coy and the page that you have posted fills in so many gaps in the database. I recognise so many of the surnames but did not have the army numbers. I will update the "A" Coy photograph post in due course. Can I ask where you got the page from?



    Looking at the page numbers, there doesn't seem to have been a page for "B" Coy. So it might be possible that as battalion members went off to other units the battalion was reduced to three Company strength.
     
  2. bglover

    bglover Member

    Glad to have been of some assistance. It came from a disappointing afternoon at Kew, all I found was mundane reports after the fighting had stopped, the most exciting things were volleyball matches and shooting competitions.
     
  3. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    I used to live in Surrey and spent most of my spare time at the National Archives, I now live in Shropshire and cannot get down to Kew these days without undertaking an expedition of epic proportions. I have just updated the "A" Coy post with the help of your list but there are still some anomalies. I am guessing that the battalion was changing rapidly at the time that the photograph was taken, and that those on the Defence Medal Roll were not necessarily still in the battalion at the time.

    The top of your page is missing but if it stated, 'Battalion Orders, Part 1, No. 129, Dated 9th October 1945' then it would seem that I now have the complete Defence Medal roll. The bottom of your page says sheet 3 and the next page, sheet 4, starts with "C" Coy.

    A large party of men arrived from the 13th King's on the 29th November 1945, were taken on strength and were posted to "B" Coy on the same date.
     
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  4. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Good to see the pieces of the jigsaw are coming together at last HW.
     
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  5. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Yes indeed, this has really been a community effort and I am extremely grateful for all the help that I have received thanks to the generosity of members of this wonderful forum. Perhaps you could use the data for an Operation Thursday website to compliment your Operation Longcloth one. I am sure that you will be able to find the time if you give up eating, sleeping and full time employment. :D
     
  6. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Perhaps we might become joint masters of a 1 KLR website HW, I will leave Chindit 2 for some other folk.:)
     
  7. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    I have no experience of putting a website together but I would be happy to give it a go. Let me know when you are ready.
     
  8. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    Not taking the bait for the latter... :D
     
  9. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    You're too canny for me HC, thought I had you there.
     
  10. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Paul,

    having now added the names on the "A" Coy Defence Medal Roll to the database I can say with some confidence that your grandfather, 3456855 Pte James Newton was in "A" Coy, 1/King's at Dehra Dun in 1945. Hopefully you will understand that I was previously keeping my options open until I had documentary evidence as I had three Newtons to choose from.

    Simon
     
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  11. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    I now know that the Hetherington in the "A" Coy photograph is: 3773360 L/Cpl Hetherington. No initial given on the medal roll.
     
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  12. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    HW,

    I am at work right now, but having looked through the A Coy listing, I think I have two men who can be confirmed as Longclothians. I'll post these names this evening.

    Steve
     
  13. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    3776236 W. Greenhalgh. Gave witness statement for Longcloth casualties. Obit in Dekho! Summer 1986

    3188857 Ernest G. Henderson. Originally 5 Column on Longcloth, escaped Burma via Chinese borders with 7 Column.
     
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  14. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Many thanks, I will update the spread sheet.

    Wilfred Greenhalgh, born 6th December 1919, died 16th October 1985, Bolton, Lancashire. Is it known if he was on both Chindit expeditions?
     
  15. bglover

    bglover Member

    I think that W Greenhalgh may have been from the same town as my father, St Helens (missed the preious post, obviously not. The name however rings a bell.)
     
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  16. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    I have nothing to say he was on Chindt 2 I'm afraid.
     
  17. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    I'm intrigued now.:)
     
  18. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    More on Henderson from my website here; scroll down alphabetically:

    Roll Call F-J
     
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  19. bglover

    bglover Member

    Greenhalgh was quite a common name in St Helens, and I do recall my dad talking about a friend with that name. I need to examine some records, but don't hold your breath.
     
  20. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Thanks for looking for me anyway. Breathing normally.:)
     

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