NAM.1993-10-130-4

Fourth of four sound cassettes: oral history interview with Maj John Douglas Anderson covering his military service during World War Two, Far East. Anderson was an engineer, a reserved occupation, and he served with the Home Guard until 1942, when the Hankey Commission recruited him to serve in the Army. He took a Royal Army Ordnance Corps OCTU course, but REME was created just as he was commissioned and he was posted to it, serving with Int Bdee, 2nd Div in the UK. In 1943 he was posted to West Africa, working at Cahoradi [?] on the Gold Coast before joining HQ Gold Coast and HQ 1 (WA Bde), Ibadan, Nigeria. In August 1944 he arrived in India and served with HQ RA 82nd W African Div in the Arakan. He remained with his men in Rangoon until the end of 1946 before returning and demobilising. Interview conducted on 8 September 1993.

Arakan Campaign, 1942-44 (World War Two, Far East 1941-1945)