Links
Below is the memorial to the King's Liverpool Regiment, it can be found along with many other memorials in St. John's Gardens in the city centre. I have always been very impressed by the city's determination to honour their citizens for their efforts in conflict and adversity, for this they should be very proud.
Below is the memorial to the King's Liverpool Regiment, it can be found along with many other memorials in St. John's Gardens in the city centre. I have always been very impressed by the city's determination to honour their citizens for their efforts in conflict and adversity, for this they should be very proud.
Here are some links to websites which have been more than useful to me over the past fifteen years or so:
Museum of Liverpool: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museum-of-liverpool
AJEX Jewish Military Museum: www.ajex.org.uk
The Chindits-in Art (an interesting site presented by Akhil Kadidal): http://chindits.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/the-chindits/
The Commando Veterans Association: http://www.commandoveterans.org/site/
The Kohima Museum: http://www.kohimamuseum.co.uk
The Burma Campaign. Including information about the Burma Rifles: www.indiaburmasoldiers.co.uk
15th King's Parachute Battalion: www.paradata.org.uk/unit/15th-kings-parachute-battalion
The War Graves Photographic Project: www.twgpp.org
The Black Watch Regimental Museum: theblackwatch.co.uk/museum/
British Association For Cemeteries in South Asia: http://www.bacsa.org.uk
The Special Operations Executive in Burma: soeinburma.wordpress.com/the-operations-of-soe-burma/
The Gurkha Welfare Trust: https://www.gwt.org.uk
Combat Stress: http://www.combatstress.org.uk
Asia War Graves, an exceptional website from photographer Tony Buckley: asiawargraves.com
The Chindit Society: thechinditsociety.org.uk/about-chindits
The Anglo-Burmese Library. A website devoted to the history of the Anglo-Burmese community and their experiences.
This link is dedicated in memory of Mark Steevens: http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/the-war-against-japan.html
The Staffordshire Regiment Museum: staffordshireregimentmuseum.com
The Lancashire Fusiliers website: www.lancs-fusiliers.co.uk/index.html
The website of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment: www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk
Help For Forgotten Allies: a website devoted to assisting the men and women from Burma and Thailand who loyally supported the British war effort during the years of WW2: www.h4fa.org.uk/veterans
Narrow Escapes of WW2-The First Chindit Expedition, Operation Longcloth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4yqSF4Oso
War In The Wilderness Lecture, Tony Redding: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeO_EWVdR_U
The Java FEPOW Club 1942: thejavafepowclub42.org/index.html
The Burma Star Memorial Fund: burmastarmemorial.org
The British Army's new 77th Brigade: www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brigades/6th-united-kingdom-division/77-brigade/
The Burma Campaign Society: theburmacampaignsociety.org
The Kohima Educational Trust: www.kohimaeducationaltrust.net
The Rocks By Rail Museum, Rutland: www.rocks-by-rail.org/fepow/
Pre-operation Longcloth newsreel footage: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060034985
12KP Events Longcloth Preservation march June 2023: fareastevent.weebly.com
Thanks and appreciation
Steve Fogden at Maymyo 2008.
I'd like to thank a few people for putting up with or helping me with this website and all the many hours of research it has taken to compile.
Firstly, to all my family for managing to stay sane and show incredible patience as I went on and on about my Chindit boys. Thank you massively.
Thanks go to:
Marc Fogden, for so many things.
Denise McCulloch
Lars Ahlkvist
Georgina Livingstone
Liz Hosegood
Val Gornell
Phil Chinnery
Tom Webb
Alec Gibson
Les Bourne
Martin Sugarman
Photo is of your host in Burma in 2008. When they wrote that they had to hack their way through thick swathes of bamboo, come back and look at this image and realize what that truly meant. (Photo courtesy Marc Fogden).
Firstly, to all my family for managing to stay sane and show incredible patience as I went on and on about my Chindit boys. Thank you massively.
Thanks go to:
Marc Fogden, for so many things.
Denise McCulloch
Lars Ahlkvist
Georgina Livingstone
Liz Hosegood
Val Gornell
Phil Chinnery
Tom Webb
Alec Gibson
Les Bourne
Martin Sugarman
Photo is of your host in Burma in 2008. When they wrote that they had to hack their way through thick swathes of bamboo, come back and look at this image and realize what that truly meant. (Photo courtesy Marc Fogden).
Steve Fogden in the Irrawaddy at Myitkhina.
It took me about five minutes to get myself into the Irrawaddy River in 2008, here just south of Myitkhina and much to the dismay of our group doctor, she was concerned about me contracting bilharzia. This was a special and emotional moment for me, mainly I think because this river was the last and often insurmountable obstacle for so many of the Chindits in 1943.
My thanks also go to:
Matt Poole
Tony Beck
Yvonne Baxter (in memory of her father Jim Baxter, also a Burma veteran).
Sally Hill
Barbara Smith from New Jersey
All on the WW2Talk Forum, Richard (TD), Simon, Jason, Enes, Andrew, Eddie, Ken, Phil, Steven, Alberto, John C. and Peter.
Many of the maps used on this website appear "Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin."
Special thanks go to seven veterans of the Burma Campaign who are sadly no longer with us, but who have been a wonderful source of information and help along the way:
Denis Gudgeon, Jack Lindo, Alec Gibson, Jack Osborne, Bill Smyly, 'Aussie' Graves and Neville Hogan.
To everyone who has ever contacted me, advised me or directed me to another source of information and especially to all the Chindit families, many many thanks.
My thanks also go to:
Matt Poole
Tony Beck
Yvonne Baxter (in memory of her father Jim Baxter, also a Burma veteran).
Sally Hill
Barbara Smith from New Jersey
All on the WW2Talk Forum, Richard (TD), Simon, Jason, Enes, Andrew, Eddie, Ken, Phil, Steven, Alberto, John C. and Peter.
Many of the maps used on this website appear "Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin."
Special thanks go to seven veterans of the Burma Campaign who are sadly no longer with us, but who have been a wonderful source of information and help along the way:
Denis Gudgeon, Jack Lindo, Alec Gibson, Jack Osborne, Bill Smyly, 'Aussie' Graves and Neville Hogan.
To everyone who has ever contacted me, advised me or directed me to another source of information and especially to all the Chindit families, many many thanks.