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Viscount John Slim OBE DL FRGS 1927 - 2019 President of The Burma Star Association It is with sadness we announce the death of the Association's President, Viscount John Slim on Saturday 12th January …

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WELFARE Below are the welfare categories that the Association can provide assistance with: Categories 1. With residential and care home fees and care at home costs. 2. Respite placements to cover hosp …

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THE BURMA STAR MEMORIAL FUND’S NEW SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME The Burma Star Memorial Fund IS delighted to announce that we have I I entered into a partnership with University College London. Some of our r …

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With the Royal Navy in War & Peace by B B Schofield Imprint: Pen & Sword Maritime Pages: 270 ISBN: 9781526736475 £25 hb WITH THE Published: 12th December 2018 ROYAL, J“ NAVcham The Royal Navy that Bri …

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Cumbria at War 1939—45 by Ruth Mansergh (cont) Extensively researched, the book takes a detailed look at the ships built in Barrow, memorials in the city of Carlisle and towns and villages across Cumb …

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@HEV ‘ < . u ‘ Royal Nav VY Royal Marines Royal Indian Navy Merchant Navy SEAC ALFSEA 12th Army 14m Army We have been notified, sadly, 0f the deaths oft/1e following Burma StarAssociation members and w …

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She was the real shining spirit, the spirit which brought out the best in us.” Her loss is so much greater than a merely personal one, great though that is to many of us. It is a break with a very spe …

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planned two trips, Kohima and Imphal in 2017 and, more recently, we returned from a trip to Burma, now Myanmar. Having taken this journey through my father’s life, I thought that readers of Dekho! mig …

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Issue No.1 DEKHO! September 195] THE BURMA RE-UNION & THE BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION by FRANK OWEN We will begin at the beginning, but be brief. In other pages you will read WHAT it’s all about. Here we t …

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came under intense and accurate enemy machine gun fire, several of the Dukws became stranded on the sandbanks in the centre of the river and had to be rescued. All of the Dukws were damaged by gunfire …