More than 50 years earlier he had been recruited into the British Army's Burma Rifles and had then fought proudly for Britain in World War Two. He was "still perfectly lucid" at the age of 87 ...

The Royal Army Service Corps gunner survived being strafed ... Soldier's son 'surprise' at WW2 hidden drums story WW2 prisoner survived by mending guards' watches Surviving the horrors of Japan's ...

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel ...

British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9, the Japanese began ...