photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2004-10-179-111

Description

Group of officers and senior NCOs 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. 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. Associated with World War Two, Far East (1941-1945).

Events

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