Authors: Fergal Keane
Daunt, Audrey 411
Daunt, Private Ivan 59, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 135, 179, 241–2, 243, 330, 355, 411
Davies, Gwilym 447
Davis, Captain Paul 83, 416
Dawson, Lieutenant Dennis 45, 182–3, 227, 228, 229
D-Day 281, 362, 368, 392
Defeat Into Victory
(Slim) 79n, 116–17, 168, 184n, 224n, 387n, 436
Dimapur 27, 29–30, 33, 35, 82, 116, 140, 154, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, 179, 181, 182, 185, 186, 187, 218, 219, 249, 283, 351, 352–3, 365, 367, 368, 369, 371, 384, 386, 411
British command of 172–3, 187, 222, 224, 224n, 279, 386, 458
see also
Stopford, Lieutenant General Montagu
British mistakenly prioritise 222–3, 224, 224n, 275, 278, 279, 386
British reinforcements arrive in 170, 173, 176, 179, 181–2, 186–8, 231, 278, 285, 437, 272, 278, 285, 313, 317, 353
Burma refugees within 29, 30
false British intelligence concerning Japanese threat to 223
garrison defences 185
garrison situation, confused 187–9, 437
garrison strength 169, 170, 173, 176, 179, 181–2, 185, 218, 231, 427
Imphal road 82, 116, 140, 168, 288
Japanese cut roads to 82, 116, 140, 168, 255, 272, 275, 283, 288, 316, 350
Japanese failure to attack 279, 290, 291, 292, 339, 423
Japanese plan to capture 116, 140, 154, 168, 170, 184, 184n, 223
railhead at 27, 29, 30, 35, 223, 279
threat to extinguished 316, 368, 369
West Kent’s at 221, 223, 236, 240, 244, 355–61, 364
wounded taken to, Allied 182, 183, 218, 226, 268, 352, 364
disease and illness: Allied xvii, 13, 14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 76, 82, 160, 161, 218, 256, 266, 328, 338, 376, 411
Japanese xvii, 14, 114, 155, 291, 297, 388, 395, 396, 396n, 398, 399, 401, 420
Domei News Service 154–5
Dower, John 107, 420
Driscoll, Corporal G. W. xiv
Dunkirk 61–2, 98, 274, 359, 378, 379, 411
Earley, Lieutenant Desmond 401
Easten, Billie 63, 333, 410, 430
Easten, Captain (later Major) Donald 359
Arakan 134–5, 138
background 62
India, arrival in 68–9
Iraq 67
John Harman and 103–4, 128, 129, 255, 268–9, 340
joins army 62–3
jungle warfare, describes 134–5
Kohima, arrival at 242
Kohima, journey to 178, 240
Kohima, leaves 355
Kohima, siege of 247, 248, 249, 250, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265–6, 268, 269, 271, 303, 333, 340, 341, 343–4, 345, 346, 347, 348
Laverty, on competence of 98
North Africa 63–4
post-war life 410, 430–1
Saville, role in removal of 95
West Kent’s movement to Dimapur, attitude towards 221
wounded 271, 333, 341, 410
Edward VIII, King 1–2
Elwell, Captain Donald 329, 332
Evans, Wally 103, 127–8
Eves, Sergeant Jack 337
Fanning, Paddy 135
Faulkner, Janet 431
Faulkner, John 241, 242–3, 247–8, 254–5, 269, 305–6, 307, 341–3, 350, 353, 355, 431
Faulkner, Margery 254
First World War, 1914–1918 24, 31, 32, 34, 40, 52, 54, 59, 60, 83, 90, 97, 99, 132, 132n, 181, 183, 184, 225, 273, 340, 361, 380
FitzClarence, Geoffrey 416
Fitzpatrick, Captain Gerald 25, 26
Folgore Division 64
food/hunger
see
supply operations
Forsdyke, Eric 323
Foster, Reg 362
Foucar, Lieutenant Colonel Emile Charles 6–7, 8, 9, 10, 105
Foucar, Mollie 6
Franklin, Major Peter 257, 267, 302, 304, 329
From Kent to Kohima
(Clarke/Tillott) 434
Frost, Lance Corporal 20–1
Fujiwara, Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi 86, 113–14, 147, 150, 215n, 235, 289, 326, 372, 392, 394, 395, 396
Gade, Felix 100, 102, 432
Gaidiliu 41, 41n, 51–2
Gandhi, Mohandas K.41, 43, 43n, 69, 70, 87, 440
Gatpoh, Reverend L. 409
Giffard, General Sir George 169, 170–1, 170n, 173, 180, 184n, 223n, 416, 436
Gilani, Lieutenant M. A. 132
Glover, Captain F.R. 301
Goodwin, Private Peter 60, 65
Gordon, Private George 378, 379
Goschen, Brigadier Willie 380
Graham, Captain Gordon 43, 374, 380, 386n
Grant, Major Ian Lyall 88
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 109, 117n
Greatly, Private Tom 266, 429
Greenwood, Captain (later Major) Walter 182, 183, 229, 283, 302, 303, 304
Grocock, Deryck 324
Grover, Lieutenant Colonel David 386
Grover, Major General John xx, 284, 458
appearance 174
Dimapur, ordered to 173, 185, 186, 272, 273, 275
fired 384–7
Kohima offensive 378, 380, 381, 383, 387n, 439
Kohima Ridge, plan to retake 339–40
mistakes 313, 338, 384–7
Nagas, opinion of 295
overstates likelihood of quick breakthrough to Kohima 313, 386
relief of Kohima 278, 313, 338
slow to enact orders 278, 313, 338, 365–8, 377, 384–7
Stopford and 278, 365–8, 377, 384–7
Guadalcanal, battle of, 1942–3 146, 146n, 151, 163, 167, 288, 318
Gurung, Lieutenant D.B. 216
Ha-Go, Operation 104
Haines, Company Sergeant Major Bill 266, 341, 347–8, 354
Hall, Private Nobby 268, 270
Halnan, Captain Keith 72, 275–6, 314
Harman, Amy Ruth 100
Harman, Diana 100, 433
Harman, Lance Corporal John 99–104, 127–9, 138, 240, 254–5, 265, 268–9, 269n, 340, 361, 432–3, 458
Harman, Martin Coles 100, 101, 102, 103, 432–3
Harwood, Company Sergeant Major 137m 263, 312, 332
Hawkins, Brigadier Victor 186, 274, 276, 285, 313, 314, 354, 365, 381
Hayllar, Lieutenant Bruce 188–9, 225–6, 228, 230, 234, 249, 250, 257, 298, 300, 345–6, 351, 358–9, 448
Heath, Private T. J. 126
Hemingway, Ernest 321
Hewitt, Private W. 22
Hill, Fred 42
Hirakubo, Lieutenant Masao 149–50, 166–7, 168, 204, 233, 238, 320–1, 371, 374–5, 418–19, 445–6, 447, 448, 459–60
Hirayama, Lieutenant Yoshiteru xviii, 147–8, 151, 164, 196–7, 198, 199–200, 207–8, 286, 375–6, 402, 420–1
Hirohito, Emperor xvi, 109n, 117, 150, 371
Hiroshima, Japan 418–19
Hitler, Adolf 4, 58, 62, 123, 238
Hogg, Lieutenant Tom 66, 67, 93, 96, 135, 136, 177–8, 220, 221, 242, 243, 310, 311, 338, 348, 355, 410
Hong Kong 5, 10, 84n
Hope-Thomson, M.R.J. ‘Tim’ 193, 194, 199, 201, 203, 204, 206, 209–10, 211
Hopkinson, Lieutenant Colonel Paul 194, 195, 197, 200–1, 205, 206
Howell, Private Charlie 358
Hudson, Lieutenant John 189
Humine 396–7, 398
Hussein, Khaddam 89
Hutton, Lieutenant General T. J. 12–13
Imai, Yukihiko 155, 167, 196, 208, 238, 377, 391
Imperial Japanese Army
see
Japanese Army, Imperial
Imperial Way 109n, 110
Imphal xviii–xix, xx, 27, 31, 53, 115–16, 119, 120, 140, 141, 147, 156, 157, 165, 165n, 170, 180, 181, 209, 210, 212, 238, 278, 280, 290, 325, 369, 384, 389, 415
battle/siege of xviiii–xix, xx, 172, 189, 236, 278, 289, 368, 369, 384–5, 387n, 396, 415, 441n
breakthrough to, Allied 384
British plan to withdraw from and lure Japanese onto Imphal Plain 157, 175, 235, 387n
Burma, troops arrive in on retreat from 27
cut off by Japanese 235, 236
defences 194, 212
Dimapur Road 82, 116, 140, 168, 288
garrison strength 175n, 212
Japanese failure to prioritise 291, 316–17, 319, 370, 371, 389–91, 392, 393–4, 395
Japanese plan to attack 115–20, 140–1, 156, 157
Kohima road 29, 33, 80, 80n, 221, 226, 235, 282, 288, 365, 366, 384, 394, 455
non-combatants in 198
order to withdraw from mistimed, British 157, 175, 235, 387n
reinforcements arrive at, British Army 278, 389
siege/blockade broken 368, 384–5, 387n
supply problems 236, 278, 368
V Force in 49, 165, 189
Imphal Plain xx, 31, 141, 147, 157, 175, 235, 292
India: battles in
see under individual
area, battle, campaign or place name
British Empire in (Raj) xix, xx, 5, 77, 174, 282, 408, 427–8, 442, 448
British use of nationals in intelligence gathering 36, 46–50, 52–6, 184n, 189–91, 212, 223, 293, 295–6, 364–5
effect of Kohima upon xix, 427–8
Independence 409, 410, 427, 442
Japanese advance into 111–20, 140, 148, 163–6, 173, 176, 193, 194, 195, 196, 209, 291
Japanese attempts to turn people against British xix, xx, 85–7, 85n, 116, 156, 158, 160, 230, 237, 239, 296, 402
Japanese spies in 111, 146, 156, 157, 158
Japanese withdrawal from xvii, 3984, 389–91, 396, 410–17
Naga people and
see
Naga people
nationalism 41, 43, 43n, 69, 70, 72, 84, 85n, 85, 87–8, 385, 409, 427
partition 442
retreating British troops arrive from Burma in 26–8, 29–30
see also under individual area
or place name
Indian Air Force 133
Indian Army xvii, 184, 385
barracks life 89
battle readiness 76
battles
see
under individual area, battle, campaign or nation name
in Burma 5, 9, 12, 12n, 13, 17, 18, 19
Churchill’s mistrust of 84–5
importance to British Army of 84–5
INA and xx, 85–7, 85n, 116, 156, 160, 230, 237, 239, 296, 402
Indian nationalism and xx, 85–7, 85n, 116, 156, 160, 230, 237, 239, 296, 402
‘josh’ groups 87, 160
loyalty/desertion of troops 17, 84–8, 84n, 85n, 87, 90, 116, 160, 230, 237, 239, 267, 353, 360–1
morale 76, 87, 160
officer corps, transformation of 88
pay 88
proportion of 14th Army 84
recruitment 76
reform of 88–9
refugees from units overrun by Japanese 292
retreat from Burma into India 14–17, 18, 21, 23, 29, 30–1
Singapore, fall of and 84, 85
units
see
British/Burmese/Indian/Nepalese Army units
see also
British Army
Indian Civil Service 32, 190, 282
Indian National Army (INA) (Japanese) xx, 85–7, 85n, 116, 156, 160, 230, 230n, 237, 239, 296, 402
Infanti, Lance Corporal Frank 96, 136, 137, 297, 301–2, 328, 360, 418
intelligence: Allies xx, 1–5, 25, 36, 46–50, 52–6, 93, 112–13, 156, 157, 157n, 158, 165–6, 169, 184n, 189–92, 212, 223, 293, 295–6, 364–5
Burma Intelligence Corps 157n
Chindits xx, 25, 46, 93, 112–13, 112n, 114, 149, 156, 165–6, 165n, 170n, 171, 180, 278, 316, 368, 399, 401, 401n, 411, 459
Force 131 47n
Force 136 157n
goes astray 194, 194n, 201
INA, Japanese use of 86–7
ISLD (Inter-Services Liasion Department) 157n
Japanese Army 3, 4, 9, 86–7, 111, 112–14, 146, 147, 156, 157, 158, 316, 325–6
Japanese plans 156, 157n, 166, 169, 184–5, 194
Japanese spies in Burma 3, 4, 9
Japanese spies in India 111, 146, 156, 157, 158
Japanese troop strength 194, 194n, 201, 212, 223
Japanese use of Chindit 112–14
Naga gathering of 36, 46–50, 52–6, 158, 184n, 189–91, 212, 223, 293, 295–6, 364–5
Special Operations Executive (SOE) 47n, 157n
Ultra code breakers 157n
V Force 47–50, 47n, 52, 54, 55, 56, 147, 148, 156, 157n, 161, 165, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 194n, 195, 212, 214, 229, 293, 296, 364, 365, 401, 406, 409
Z Force 47n, 157n, 194n
Ismay, General ‘Pug’ 369