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The Badge of this unit was leaping panther in black on a circular background divided into the corps colours of two red & central white band. Although this was the officially approved badge for the C …
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The late Major General Charles Orde Wingate was an unusual man. He commanded the confidence of unusual men, too. Wavell believed in him, and gave him his head on two occasions, in Abyssinia, 1940, an …
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The following is a report about the Division's contribution to the Burma Campaign by S.E.A.C. (South East Asia Command). It was published in the SEAC Souvenir Newspaper just after the surrender by t …
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The 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Supplementary Reserve), was founded in the wake of the Munich crisis, and recruited mainly in the spring of 1939 from young men of the …
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The badge of this unit was a black elephant on a red background. Formed at Alesford in Hampshire in February 1940, by the then GOC Sir Glaude Auchinlect, who choose the badge of his old regiment (1 …
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Now we must turn to the primary object of all these operations, the Supreme Allied Commander’s directive to the Fourteenth Army:—to clear North Burma and advance to the line Mogaung-Myitkyina. This br …
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Previously the 50th (Indian) Parachute Brigade The same Badge was used by this unit as that of the British Airborne Division, the well known Pegasus with the addition of the word India in blue unde …
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The Regiment has been in existence for 296 years and today is one of the handful that have not been disbanded or amalgamated since the Infantry of the Line was reorganised in 1881. At that time the 3 …
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The badge of this unit was geometric design of three roman numeral ""V"" s for fifteen in white or black on a red rectangle (or circular) background was the badge adopted by this formation. Histo …
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The badge of this unit was two spears on a native carriers headband set on a yellow shield. They were dispatched to India in July 1944, serving as part of the ""Fourteenth Army"", they joined up wi …
