NAM.2004-10-179-110

Group photograph of officers and senior NCOS, in bush hats, of 84 Chindit Column in the aftermath of Operation Thursday, August 1944 (c). Pictured top, from left to right, 'Shuttleworth', Lt Neil Douglas, 'Stewart', Lt Vincent, Lt Frank Luxa, 2nd Bn York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Lt J C D Boultflour, Gloucestershire Regiment[?], 'Bradley', 'Askew', 'Yerdson' and 'Masson'. Pictured middle, left to right, Richard Pearsall, Royal Engineers, 'Macmillan', 'Jarrett', 'Crowe' and 'Wilding'. Front, pictured left to right, RSM Hemmings, Capt Perrin [?], Lt Shiel, Lt Col P H Graves Morris, Maj Gen [?], Col Jeffries, 'Downward', 'Bruce' and Capt Dobury. The caption includes a list of those men who did not survive the mission, they are listed as 'absent'. From a photograph album of 131 black and white photographic prints relating to the service of Frank Luxa, 2nd Bn, The York and Lancaster Regiment, with 84 Chindit Column in Burma during Operation THURSDAY, April to September 1944.

THURSDAY, Operation, 1944 (World War Two, Far East 1941-1945)