Original information from his family Captain Cecil Warwick Strong (henceforth CWS), killed, November 1945 in Sarawak, served with the Special...
Asked this week to research an officer who the family say served with 'V' Force in Burma and Borneo, but died in October 1945. A separate thread...
New Video series on the Burma Campaign. (To me to least). Anyone else noticed it? Oldest comment seems to be ten months ago, most are quite...
Hello, we are researching WWII casualty Sergeant (Pilot) John Rankin Aitken who was apparently born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia & enlisted in the...
Hello! I am looking for information about my Grandfather, Charles Turner, who I was very close to but have very sketchy infomation about his War...
Just looking for confirmation if the actor Noel Coleman is one of the same as Capt. Noel Philip Coleman, 7th Bn Leicestershire Regiment, 74...
Following contact with Harry Fecitt, who in the past posted here, he provided a link to a joint lecture (1h 12m) to the Kohima Educational Trust...
Hello everyone, I am currently researching a PhD on the experience of the British soldier during the Burma campaign. The chapter that I am...
Yesterday's Enemy Yesterday's Enemy - Wikipedia Yesterday's Enemy is a 1959 Hammer Films British war film in MegaScope directed by Val Guest...
Hi all I’m trying to find some information for my friend about his Grandfather. His name was Joseph Appleyard and he was born in 1920, died 2002....
Does anyone know what 'AO' or 'AO Tps' might refer to in an armoured regiment? The term appears several times in an after action report by a...
https://core.ac.uk/download/429714369.pdf British Army Logistics in the Burma Campaign 1942-1945
Has any of you read this? Is it worth buying?
An online book review in the BJMH: 'The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army' by Raymond A Callahan & Daniel...
This story was published on the BBC website in reference to a West African veteran who died aged 101 in January 2022: world-africa-60301758 [ATTACH]
Personal Number: 611 Rank: Field Marshal Name: Sir Francis Wogan FESTING, GCB, DSO, MiD Unit: Rifle Brigade London Gazette : 28 December 1923...
Personal Number: 13820 Rank: Major-General Name: George Neville WOOD, CBE, DSO, MC, MiD Unit: Dorsetshire Regiment London Gazette : 11 January...
Hey all, I'm at the start of my journey to expand the family knowledge on My Great Uncles participation with the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire...
A short article by the historian Robert Lyman, which is actually entitled 'India is being erased from history: Modern historians perpetuate a...
Just had notification of this midday talk by NAM (free) and the precis states:Join Dr Robert Lyman as he compares the deep operations conducted in...
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