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Incidentally can recommend Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser (of Flashman books fame) which are his memoirs of being an infantryman with the 17th Division of the 14th Army. Was loaned it a couple of years ago and it captures what the jungle fighting was like. Gave it back...

Early 1970's Local Spar Shop on a little parade in Sandiway, Cheshire, just around the corner from our house so I would be sent on errands. Run by Fred and Nora. Noticed one day when he didn't have his white shop coat on that he had a Burma Star badge on his lapel. When I asked he said he...