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The Burma Star Association is a British veterans' association for ex-servicemen and women of all services who served in the Burma Campaign of World War II.The criterion for membership is the award of the Burma Star for service in Burma during World War II for the necessary qualifying period or the Pacific Star with Burma Clasp.
The Burma Star is a military campaign medal, instituted by the United Kingdom in May 1945 for award to British and Commonwealth forces who served in the Burma Campaign from 1941 to 1945, during the Second World War.
It reads; "This park was proclaimed and dedicated CHARLES HOEY V.C. MEMORIAL PARK by his worship Mayor M.G. Coleman and by the council of the city of Duncan on August 12th 1991 to mark the visit of the Burma Star Association and in recognition of the outstanding heroism and indomitable courage of MAJOR CHARLES HOEY citizen of the Cowichan ...
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bernard Albert Chacksfield, KBE, CB (13 April 1913 – 27 December 1999) was a senior Royal Air Force officer in the 1950s and 1960s and later a chief commissioner of The Scout Association and chairman of the Burma Star Association.
From 1962 until 1977 Sir William was national chairman of the Burma Star Association. [14] He was knighted in the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours List. He was elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1936. [15] [4] From 1961 to 1970, he was a lay member of the Restrictive Practices Court.
The film was supported by Dame Joanna Lumley, Dame Vera Lynn, Griff Rhys Jones, the Royal British Legion, Help for Heroes and the Burma Star Association, and premiered in 2019 at the National Army Museum in London. [15] [16] In 2019, Bescoby began work on his first Channel 4 (UK) documentary series - The Last Overland: Singapore to London.
Burma Star Association Map; Burma Star Association Japanese invade India; Royal Engineers Museum Engineers at Imphal and Kohima; National Army Museum War in the Far East; No. 1 Squadron, Royal Indian Air Force, Imphal, Assam, 1944; British leaflet dropped post-Imphal in Burma
The campaign to erect a memorial to Slim was launched by the Burma Star Association in early 1988, [1] when eight sculptors were invited to submit designs for a statue. Of these, five agreed to compete: Roberts-Jones, James Butler, David Norris, Christopher Marvell and Michael Rizzello.