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Subject: Re: 'The Battery in Burma Campaign'

Author:
Wes

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Date Posted: 17:03:03 05/22/05 Sun
In reply to: Jim Martin 's message, "'The Battery in Burma Campaign'" on 13:13:35 05/22/05 Sun

Dont forget the Battery then was "19 Field Battery RA".

Cheers

>The more that I delve into the history of that
>campaign, the more astounded I am of the remarkable
>stories of the veterans that fought over there. It's
>no wonder why my father was reluctant to go into any
>detail about what actually happened. He like many
>other veterans could never forgive or forget what the
>Japanese did. He like many others suffered frequent
>nightmares and bouts of malaria right up to the day he
>died. He would never buy anything made in Japan, that
>was for sure!
>Been reading some truly horrific accounts of
>individuals off the 'Burma Star Association' web-site.
>Those interested should visit and peruse the various
>articles. I can highly recommend it.
>I believe the Battery came under 9 Fld Regt, which in
>turn came under 20 Indian Divison which saw a fair
>amount of action in Burma. I'm going to try and plot
>the numerous battles that they were involved in
>between November'43 and July'45 on a wartime map of
>Burma. I know that they were at Imphal around 13
>March'44. And on 23 January'45 they crossed the
>Irrawaddy north of Mandalay and on 13 February'45 they
>had established a solid bridgehead over the Irrawaddy
>despite fierce Japanese attacks.
>The hard part is to plug the gaps in between the
>various battles that the Battery was involved with at
>that time.
>If anybody out there can find any articles, whether
>from individuals or reports of anything to do with the
>Battery concerning that period, then either Terry or
>Wes would be glad of any information that we can
>obtain. Also any photographs would be a bonus relating
>to the above.
>All this is particularly relervant to what will be
>going on in September concerning the OCA. Don't you
>agree?

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Re: 'The Battery in Burma Campaign'	Jim Martin	17:53:35 05/22/05 Sun