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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 …
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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 …
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The Staffordshire Regiment (the Prince of Wales's) incorporates the former South and North Staffordshire Regiments, which were amalgamated in 1959. Its origins go back to 1705 when the 38th Foot (late …
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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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From the Winter 1982 edition of Dekho! The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and The Border Regiment (Carlisle) amalgamated to form The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959. Today’s regimen …
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By Philip J Shears The Kabaw Valley, which means ""Black"" or ""Death"" Valley, is pleasant for a short time in winter, but is pestilential for the remainder of the year. The village huts are built …
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When King James IL succeeded his brother, Charles II, to the throne in 1685, he was determined to increase his Army, despite the opposition of the House of Commons to standing armies of any size. The …
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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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Mrs Joyce Hill, nee Joyce Davis, was a member of the WAS(B) -- the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) -- in 1944 and 1945. Her brother, Michael, was one of the airmen killed with my mother's first husb …
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by Rolfe Hedges The Chindits were the brainchild of General A Wavell and Ord Wingate. Wavell then C in C in India sent for Wingate in 1943 with the task of organising guerilla activity against the J …
