Burma

The Long Long Walk

Day 4 - Mongnoi, Wa State - Now on foot with ponies Day 11 - Crossed Nam Loi River - Originally heading...

Reminiscing

I can remember standing on Eskbank Station tearfully saying goodbye to my wife Jane, my mother in law Mrs...

Ellis Koder - Memoirs of An Indian Soldier — 1942-45

During our training for the invasion of Malaya, code-named “Zipper”, we were told that the...

Survivor of the Burma-Siam Railway

He and the others were "rescued" by the Japanese navy and eventually ended up in a jungle clearing...

The Charge of the 8th FieldRoyal Artillery

The 8th Field Royal Artillery attached to the 25th Indian Division , recognition insignia "Ace of...

From West To East and Back In Uniform

On Easter Day I had arranged for the Chaplain to give me communion but of course, I could not see him and...

9th Border: In Assam

Lately I have travelled more than a thousand miles by air, lorry and jeep, around the borders of Burma and...

Life of an Airman Stationed in Rangoon

Tommy had 4 medals to show us, they were as follows -Burma Star -1939-1945 Star -The Defence Medal He also...

Combined Ops Training

But the landing craft were wanted first for North Africa, then for Sicily, then for Italy and then for...

Joining the Indian Army

I'd always wanted to join the army and after our final exams I volunteered for an officer posting in...

Bodies in Burma

Bodies were common; as were shortages of food and water... They were the bodies of Japanese soldiers that...

From Sea to Air

I then joined the RAF as aircrew and did my ITW at Aberswyth, Grading School at Coventry flying Tiger...

The Glorious First of June

Burma 1945, our Battalion the 2nd Worc's was fighting its way up hilly country, being shelled...

Burma (King’s Own Scottish Borderes.)

Lovely girls, Anglo Indian, Chinese, Burmese. Coming back on the boat there were lots of English people We...

THE BRIGADIER

Four of us; Cyril Livesey, George Glover, Lehman and I made our way to where the stretcher column was being...

Action off Burma

These had been loaded in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and destined for the R.A.F. wing in Burma where the...

The Burma Campaign 1944

July 1944, age 23, having over four years service as an infantry soldier and more than one year with the...

British Soldier Shot in Burma and Rescued by GI's.

Reg's regiment were booked to join the 8th Army in the desert but by the time they arrived Monty had...

Ann,Dear

The expectant mums had left without us, in fact everyone had left without us.The guard collected the other...

Hospital in Burma

I was in Burma when the Japanese, the British prisoners of the Japanese were released, and a lot of them...

The Japs after VJ Day

But still, the Japanese were really, really cruel... The Japanese were really, really cruel....

escape from st valery

The highland regiment continued to fight a hopeless battle at st valery when the battle had obviously been...

Glimmers of The Far East

Being born in Salford, my dad was "Billited" in a Mill in Littleborough just outside Rochdale.So...

My Father - A Soldier in Burma

When World War 2 broke out the three oldest sons undertook civil duties, but Fred and his nearest brother...

The Other Side of the War

John Gillies, was born on a small farm in the small village of Longniddry in Scotland in 1923. His...

Minesweeping Around Burma

We were there to pick up a Jap officer and NCO to show us where the minefields were ready for landing the...