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6th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment: 66 and 39 Columns 7th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment: 29 and 35 Columns 12th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment: 12 and 43 Columns 3rd West African Field Ambulance: Support (From disbanded 70th British Infantry Division); Javelin British 14th Infantry Brigade. O.C. Brigadier Thomas Brodie: 59 HQ column
The forces for the second Chindit operation were called Special Force, officially 3rd Indian Infantry Division, or Long Range Penetration Groups, [17] but the nickname, the Chindits, had already stuck. The new Chindit force commenced training in Gwalior. Men were trained in crossing rivers, demolitions and bivouacking. Calvert and Fergusson ...
In August, the division re-entered the Kaladan valley, forcing the Japanese and Indian National Army to abandon Mowdok, a few miles east of the India–Burmese frontier. The division then advanced down the valley once again, reaching Myohaung near the mouth of the river on 28 January 1945. The division was withdrawn to India to rest on 22 April ...
The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry [a] (WCY) was a cavalry unit of the Territorial Force (TF), which had served in World War I.Before the TF reformed on 7 February 1920 the War Office had decided that only a small number of mounted Yeomanry regiments would be required in future, and the remainder would have to be re-roled, mainly as artillery.
At the start of World War II the 4th battalion, along with the 6th, 7th and 12th battalions, was grouped with the 1st Sierra Leone Rifles and 1st Battalion, Gambia Regiment, to form the 6th (West Africa) Infantry Brigade. The battalion remained in Nigeria while the first three battalions fought the Italians in East Africa. The battalion ...
It was later part of the British 6th Infantry Division which was redesignated as the British 70th Infantry Division on 10 October 1941. This brigade was involved in the breakout from Tobruk and after being transferred, along with the rest of the 70th Division, to India and Burma , it was transformed into a Chindit formation.
The brigade was assigned to the Chindits and organised into eight ... 7th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment April 1944–May 1944 ... 1943–1945. 3rd Battalion, 6th Gurkha ...
7th Division then took part in Lord Roberts' advance from. the Modder River towards the Orange Free State (OFS) capital at Bloemfontein, reaching Jacobsdal on 15 February. . When the OFS army under General Piet Cronjé was cornered at the Battle of Paardeberg on 18 January, Chermside was ordered to march there from Jacobsdal. 14th Brigade arrived on the evening of 19 January to join the siege ...