Gunner R T Lees died on 29 Dec 1943 with the Royal Artillery and is buried in the Chittagong War Cemetery. Please could anyone advise which unit he might have been with? Many thanks for any help, David
Looking at the cemetery history that maybe harder than I thought: The cemetery was created by the army, and there were originally about 400 burials. Graves have since been transferred to this cemetery from the Lushai Hills (Assam) and other isolated sites, and from Chittagong Civil Cemetery; Chandragona Baptist Mission Cemetery; Chiringa Military Cemetery; Cox's Bazar New Military and Civil (Muhammadan) Cemeteries; Chittagong (Panchalaish) Burial Ground; Dacca Military Cemetery; Demagiri Cemetery; Dhuapolong Muslim Burial Ground; Dhuapolong Christian Military Cemetery; Dohazari Military and R.A.F. Cemeteries; Jessore Protestant Cemetery; Khulna Cemetery; Khurushkul Island Christian and Muhammadan Cemeteries; Lungleh Cemetery (Assam); Nawapara Cemetery (Assam); Patiya Military Cemetery, Rangamati Cemetery; Tezgaon Roman Catholic Cemetery; Tumru Ghat Military Cemetery and Tumru M.D.S. Hospital Cemetery. There are now 731 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-45 war here, 17 of which are unidentified. There are a further 20 Foreign National burials, 1 being a seaman of the Dutch Navy and 19 Japanese soldiers, 1 of which is unidentified. There are also 4 non war U.K. military burials.
He is listed in the Times on Friday, Mar 03, 1944, as having died, rather than beimg killed, which helps explain why no unit details, as most likely died in Hospital http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/Fetch?banner=4b4887f6&digest=333ffa0f0f29bf077a5629e289d167eb&contentSet=LT&recordID=0FFO-1944-MAR03-007-F&highlight=ff99ff+1+2478+6096+73+33+2556+6098+72+30&format=png&scale=0.330&highlight=ffffff+0+942+42+232+2121&crop=709+37+470+2268
There are far too many regiments to narrow it down. The service record may be the only thing that can provide the answer to this one. I've now typed up the details of 4500 RA guys and the number whose unit is not listed is very high. Would the fact that they died of wounds and thus off the strength of a particular unit account for this. If so, it would be impossible to get an accurate roll of honour for each regiment from my project. I've just done a count and of the 4500, 10% don't have a unit name against them.
28 Jungle Field Regiment RA, embarked at Calcutta for Chittagong on 8th October 1943, they were issued with 3.7 Howitzers and saw action in the first week of Dec 43 there is more here bottom of page 7 www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/spring06_1btyra.doc
