Title
7th Indian Infantry Division
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
The badge of this unit was a yellow arrow on a black background and they were known as ""The Golden Arrow” Division. The badge was chosen to indicate the direction of line of advance in the protecti …
Title
81st West African Division
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
The Badge of this unit was a black tarantula spider on a yellow circular background, (in West African folklore the spider always comes out on top) This formation was the first division ever to be f …
Title
82nd West African Division
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
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 …
Title
8th Belfast Corps
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
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 …
Title
Brief history of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
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 …
Title
British 2 Div
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
Report in SEAC Souvenir Newspaper (Price 1 Anna) With the end of the Monsoon in 1944 came the long-awaited moment for the British to return in force to Burma, liberate Mandalav, its ancient capital …
Title
British 36th Division
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
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 …
Title
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
It was the great General Marlborough who, in 1702, recommended the 23rd Foot to Queen Anne for the honour of her approval that the Regiment should become one of the three original fusilier regiments a …
Title
Sapper Posties Burma 1942-7: A Service Remembered
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
Article from Summer 2001 issue of Dekho! We often take it for granted that our mail will get to us and we rarely give a second thought to how such an extraordinary logistical feat is accomplished wi …
Title
South Wales Border Regiment
Type
Allied Formations
Branch
Army
Description
The 6th Battalion was raised in Glanusk Park, Breconshire, in July 1940. Almost none of its men had had any military training. It trained as an infantry regiment until April 1942, when it suddenly bec …