Burma Star Association
Personal Stories
Below are the links to the stories submitted by various members of the Armed Forces who fought in Burma, as well as some information about some of the regiments involved in the Campaign. If you click on a link below, it will take you to the story.
12th Bn the Sherwood Foresters - Albert Steadman
28th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
60 and 80 Column Chindits 1944 - Thomas Joesbury
194 Squadron - Douglas Williams
194 Squadron/Chindits - Deryck Groocock
Bill Turnell’s Recollections of Wartime Service
Biography of Captain Douglas Jung SOA
Brief history of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
Burma and Back - Bill Hannah
Burma and the Battle of Kangaw - Ted Ridley
Burma with the Seaforth Highlanders - Peter Torrance
Chin Hills Battalion, Burma Frontier Force 1942-1944 - Major WAS Hyde MC MiD
Chindit Ambush at Milestone 20 - Gordon Hughes
Dennis Underwood, War Office - 'Y' Group
Detachment 101 harried the Japanese in Burma and provided close support for regular Allied forces - Sterling Rock Johnson
Double Dip - Alan Hawkshaw
Engineers by Glider to Myitkyina – Company A, 879th Engineers - 17 May 1944 - Mark P Zaitsoff MAJ, EN – USAR (Ret)
Escape: Burma - Squadron Leader RG Johnson
Escape from Bangkok - Mollie Dods
Force 136 - Lieut-Colonel Ritchie Gardiner
Friendly Fire - and - A Man who said 'no' to The Japs - Richard DeR Channer
Gliderborne Engineers during Operation Thursday - Mark P Zaitsoff MAJ, EN – USAR (Ret)
Going to war with and unarmed ship - Merchant Navy Memories - Percy Smith
Hairy Experiences - Alan Barnett
History Of No 117 Squadron, Royal Air Force - John Winter
How Admin Troops Backed up the Fighting Men
In the Air Over Burma - Brian Shelley
Incident on the Sittang, May 1945 - Frank Merrett
Letters Home - George LR Stevens
Life with the South Staffs - JS Walley
Lysander Aircraft - Brian Scott
'March Divided But Fight United': The Chindits - Rolfe Hedges
Masters - Flt Lt Edward DSN Sparkes
Memories of Alcohol Consumption and the Great Beer Heist - Air Gunner Bob Ustick
Mess Secretary, 1943 - Peter Briscoe
Mike Downing’s recollection of his war service
My RAF Service with 194 Squadron - Ken Moses
Mules' Voice Chords Cut - Len Reynolds
Pear Hill, January 1945 - Capt DW (Joe) Payne, 33rd Anti Tank Regt RA
Recollections of Afghanistan's geography, religions and it's people - Ted Gibbins
Sapper Posties Burma 1942-7: A Service Remembered
Sgt Stan (Tommy) Thomson, Devonshire Regiment & RASC, Indian Army Corps Of Clerks
Springboard To Victory: 'Last Man, Last Round' Order - March 1944 - W Johnstone-Kent
Staffordshire Regiment – A Brief History
The Battle for Hill 170 and the V.C. awarded to Lt. George Knowland - Brigadier KRS Trevor CBE DSO
The Battle of Donbaik - 18 March 1943 - Colonel MA Demetriadi OBE TD
The Battle of Sittang 16th-23rd February 1942 - Bill Norman's account
The Burma Police and the Retreat from Rangoon - JR Manning
The Eastern Fleet Rules the Indian Ocean
The Enemy Strikes from the Arakan
The History of the Border Regiment
The RAF Servicing Commandos - Stan White
The Replacement Soldier - Pfc Dalton F Williams of Merrill's Marauders & Mars Task Force
The Retreat from Mandalay - Major Ronald James Anderson, British Indian Army
The Sinking Of The Suez Maru - Dennis R Courant
The Story of How Two Families Left Burma as the Japanese Advanced
The Story of the Border Regiment - Philip J Shears
Time Was... - Manny Curtis
To Naba Junction and Beyond - Norman Morse
Trooper 7945760 Malcolm Leonard Connolly, Royal Armoured Corps
Wingate's Skytroops Land in Burma
Wireless Observer Units - Ron Collins, Ex-LAC Wireless Operator, RAF
Womens’ Auxiliary Service (Burma)
WSgt Bill Clift MM, South Staffordshire Regiment
You Lucky Lads! - Ken Keen's account of life with the 1st Btn Essex Regt/23rd Bde
When you go home
tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow,
we gave our today
Lt Gen Slim at Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, in March 1945
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