Title
Bill Turnell’s Recollections of Wartime Service
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Ex. CSM -7th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment 5111331 2/7Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt. I enlisted in the Territorial Army on May 1st 1939 and was at camp during the latter part of August 1939 at …
Title
Biography of Captain Douglas Jung SOA
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Captain Douglas Jung, Special Operations Australia Douglas Jung was born in Victoria, British Columbia on Feb 24 1924 and passed away on January 4, 2002. He will be remembered by his legion of friend …
Title
Bob Croton's Story
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
We boarded the ship on the 16th January 1943 at Liverpool Docks, where we had been in the transit camp for about a week. Ours was a very small draft, twelve in all. We all came from the same Battalio …
Title
Brigadier Michael Calvert
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Brigadier Michael Calvert, DSO and Bar, wartime Chindit commander, died on November 26 aged 85. He was born on March 6, 1913. Michael Calvert was one of the most colourful and unorthodox characters …
Title
Burma and Back - Bill Hannah
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Bill Hanna of the Gordon Highlanders & 255 Ind Tank Bde A Condensed recollection of my Father's War, through England, the Orkneys, India and then Burma. My Father took part in the 14th army advance …
Title
Burma and the Battle of Kangaw - Ted Ridley
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
The following is an account written by Ted Ridley of the return to Hill 173 on the 60th Anniversary of The Battle of Kangaw Hill. The 31st January 2005 was the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Kang …
Title
Burma with the Seaforth Highlanders - Peter Torrance
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
The Burma Campaign, 1st Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders, 23rd Indian DivisionBy PM Torrance Chapter 1 - 1942 February 25th The Battalion entrained at AGRA bound for KOHIMA. Our Transport consist …
Title
Chin Hills Battalion, Burma Frontier Force 1942-1944 - Major WAS Hyde MC MiD
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
By Major WAS Hyde MC MiD In taking heed of the reminder 'Before it got too late', I thought I would put to paper some thoughts of the time I spent in the Battalion. The Battalion was part and parc …
Title
Chindit Ambush at Milestone 20 - Gordon Hughes
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
Rifle Company Officers of 22 Column, 2nd Bn Queens. Gordon Hughes, then a Lieutenant, is in the centre By Gordon Hughes For many years during March, I found myself remembering Harry Sparr …
Title
Dennis Underwood, War Office - 'Y' Group
Type
Personal Stories
Branch
Army
Description
I trained in Douglas, Isle of Man. I had applied to join the Royal Signals, having been in a Signals Section in the Home Guard (under age really but many of us were - nobody asked awkward questions at …