Brief
synopsis of service.
Enlisted at Seaforth Barracks.
Joined 5th Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment.
Went overseas February 1942, and joined 1st Kings at Ferozepore in the Punjab area of India on internal security duties.
Sent on rigorous training to Jhansi area to prepare for the second Wingate campaign, operating behind Japanese lines in Burma.
Flew into Burma and landed behind enemy lines.
After some months of fighting, wounded in the battle of Mogaung (First town to be taken form the Japanese in Burma).
After hospitalisation rejoined unit at Dhera Dun on borders of Tibet.
Returned to Central Provinces to begin training.
Joined 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment for final push towards Rangoon, April 1945.
Entered Rangoon after defeating Japanese June 1945.
Came home to Liverpool October 1945, demobilised April 1946.
The word Chindit derives from the following, outside of Burmese Pagodas are two statues called Chinthes. These are mythical figures, half lion and half Griffin, and are supposed to guard against evil spirits entering the Pagoda. General Wingate took the figure as his emblem of his long range penetration force, operating behind enemy lines. The word Chinthe was corrupted to Chindit by the media and so remained Chindit.
