Known Locations
1944
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04 January
1944:
Statement: Next day we were off again and passed through Leiktu and other villages towards Shwebo, which our battalion cleared of Japs.
February 1944:
Statement: The first thing I saw of interest was the ‘Gate of India’. A great massive archway.
13 March 1944:
Statement: The next morning ‘C’ and ‘B’ Companies formed one company and Major Hill was First in Command, this was on the main road to Shwebo? (Kin-U)
1944:
Statement: We started packing and sending our personal kit to the depot at Bombay.
14 April 1944:
Army Service records: Pt.II.O., 33/44, Unit: 2 R. Berks - Adm MDS, SOS and Posted to “X” (ii) - Place of Casualty, India.
17 May 1944:
Army Service records: Poona Hospital, date of release 17.5.46.
October 1944:
Statement: We boarded a 3-decker paddle steamer, with a paddle on each side towards the rear end and went up the Brahmaputra river.
Statement 2: We travelled up the Brahmaputra river, from Madras, Southern India, on giant paddle boat ‘B’ Company.
01 November 1944:
Statement: We stayed a few days in a rest camp. We then moved off in transport by night, to mile stone 113 between Kohima and Imphal, at Imphal we stayed for about a month or so, to get acclimatised to the jungle.
12 November 1944:
Statement: The 1st battalion of our regiment was in the 2nd Division and on one occasion the two battalions staged a meeting, but other things were more important!
Statement 2: We did at one point, around there bump into our 1st Battalion, at Imphal-Kohima.
November 1944:
Statement: Passing Tamu, we carried on to the Chindwin range.
07 December 1944:
Statement: We dug a road in the hill at Kohima, because they had to get the Tank Transporters round the hill, they blasted, two weeks, picks and shovels. They called our portion 'Berkshire Lane'. (Thanan-Tohne)
13 December 1944:
Statement: Passing Tamu, we carried on to the Chindwin range. The 2nd Battalion crossed the Chindwin on December 13th on rafts.
December 1944:
Statement: Well we headed for a place called Pinlebu that’s where we first hit the Japs, the Gurkhas hit them first, but it was just a skirmish. The Japs had moved on further down the Pinlebu Track.
25 December 1944:
Statement: The first day in action was Christmas Day, when some men in jeeps from C Company struck a defensive position with landmines on a jungle track leading south to Kanbalu. The battalion was advancing on Kanbalu.
December 1944:
Letter: My diary shows in December 1944 B Co. worked a lot on road buildings,
cutting down Bamboo trees for the Chindwin-Burma Rd at Tamu, (Thanan
Tohne).
December 1944:
Statement: Next day we were off again and passed through Leiktu and other villages towards Shwebo, which our battalion cleared, and were granted a period of rest nearby.
Statement 2: After two days of walking through swamps we reached Shwebo, and had a good bath and dried our clothes off. Here we had two days rest.
1944:
Statement: Next we moved off to the Vadi jungle for 3 weeks training, and to finish off with a march back to camp of just over 100 miles.
2nd Battalion
The Royal Berkshire Regiment
(Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
1939 - 1959
Burma WWII