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During the early months of 1945, several of the brigade headquarters and many of the veterans of the Chindit operations were reformed into the 14th and 77th Infantry Brigades and merged into the 44th Airborne Division (India), while the force headquarters and signals units formed the core of the Indian XXXIV Corps. The Chindits were finally ...
After being trained, the force was transferred to General Joseph Stilwell's Northern Combat Area Command and operated independently of the Chindits. 23rd British Infantry Brigade. O.C. Brigadier Lancelot Perowne: 32 HQ Column 1st Battalion Essex Regiment: 44 and 56 Columns 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding): 33 and 76 Columns
The Chindit Memorial in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. By the beginning of 16 April Bde was back at 'Aberdeen', while the fresh Chindit formations were being flown in to continue the operation. It was then decided to fly out the exhausted units of 16th Bde. The brigade was moved to Comilla in East Bengal and by 17 May was at Bangalore in ...
Here the division, including the 14th Infantry Brigade, was split up and reformed as Chindits, fighting in the Second Chindit Expedition of 1944 (codenamed Operation Thursday). The brigade suffered 489 casualties during the Chindit operation. [32] [33] On 1 November 1944 the brigade was redesignated as the 14th British Airlanding Brigade. [34] [35]
After the outbreak of the Second World War, the brigade was redesignated as the 23rd Infantry Brigade on 20 September 1939. It was dispersed in the canal area, and became part of HQ Canal sub-Area troops. In May 1941, the brigade was re-formed to take part in the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, during June and July 1941, as part of 6th Infantry Division.
In May, the Chindit brigades moved north. The monsoon had broken and floods impeded the Chindits' operations. On 27 May, Major-General Walter Lentaigne (who had taken command of the Chindits after Wingate was killed in an air crash in late March) ordered Calvert's brigade to capture the town of Mogaung. [26]
On the same day, Wingate, the commander of the Chindits, was killed in an aircrash. His replacement was Brigadier Joe Lentaigne, formerly the commander of the 111th Brigade, one of the Chindit formations. On 17 May, overall control of the Chindits was transferred from Slim's Fourteenth Army to Stilwell's NCAC.
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. It fought in the Second Chindit Campaign of 1944, commanded by Brigadier Gilmour Anderson. [4]