From: "Jeff Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder if any of you military historians can give a bit of background to a
piece of family history?
Chatting over a glass on Christmas Day, my mother told me more about her
father, who seems to have been pretty uncommunicative, perhaps partly
because of l
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that John Masters' books "Bugles and a Tiger" and "The Road Past
Mandalay" give good information on the Gurkha set-up. As I read it Gurkha
officers help Viceroy's Commissions, NOT King's Commissions and therefore
were below a mere British 2nd Li
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My father served with the KARs in East Africa at the
start of WW2 and about 200 KARs served with my uncle
Jock's regiment and my father in North Africa and up
through Italy into Germany and were "topped-up" with
fresh KARs when necessary.
Ever heard this
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Dad served as an engineer in North Africa during World War Two and had
contact with the King's African Rifles.
One night he drove a jeep back to the compound after a heavy night with, I
think, some American troops. He used to swap stuff with the Yanks to get cigs
