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Reinforcements for Burma, December 41 - March 42
Reinforcements arrived at Rangoon (unless otherwise noted)
and are shown with arrival date.
December 1941
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23rd Garrison Company (Akyab) |
31-Dec-41 |
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8th Heavy Antiaircraft
Battery, Indian Artillery |
31-Dec-41 |
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3rd Light Antiaircraft
Battery, Indian Artillery |
31-Dec-41 |
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The Malerkotla
State Field Company, Sappers and Miners |
31-Dec-41 ? |
left Calcutta
after 09-Dec-41 |
January 1942
| 17 Indian Infantry Division |
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01-Mar-41 |
Raised as a War Office Reserve
Division in Ahmednagar in the spring of 1941. |
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The division was to be sent to
Iraq early in 1941 for training and equipment for desert warfare as a fully mechanised |
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division. In December
1941 the division was incomplete and unfit for active operations. |
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04-Dec-41 |
Maj Gen |
JG Smyth VC |
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Divisional
Troops |
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Divisional HQ |
09-Jan-42 |
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60th Field Company, Madras
Sappers and Miners |
09-Jan-42 |
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46 Indian
Infantry Brigade |
16-Jan-42 |
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3rd Battalion, 7th Gurkha
Rifles |
16-Jan-42 |
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5th Battalion, 17th Dogra
Regiment |
16-Jan-42 |
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7th Battalion, 10th Baluch
Regiment |
16-Jan-42 |
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48 Indian Infantry
Brigade (ex 19 Indian Infantry
Division) |
31-Jan-42 |
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1st Battalion, 3rd Queen
Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles |
31-Jan-42 |
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1st Battalion, 4th Prince of
Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles |
31-Jan-42 |
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2nd Battalion, 5th Royal
Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) |
31-Jan-42 |
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14th Battalion, 7th Rajput
Regiment (relieving 23 Garrison Company at Akyab) |
25-Jan-42 |
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1st Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment |
29-Jan-42 |
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February 1942
| 17 Indian Infantry Division |
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Divisional
Troops |
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28th Mountain Regiment, Indian
Artillery |
14-Feb-42 |
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15th Mountain Battery, Indian
Artillery |
14-Feb-42 |
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28th Mountain Battery, Indian
Artillery |
14-Feb-42 |
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2nd Antitank Regiment, Indian
Artillery |
14-Feb-42 |
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24th Field Company, Bombay
Sappers and Miners |
14-Feb-42 |
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"Force
Viper", Royal Marines detachment (from Ceylon aboard the cruiser HMS
Enterprise) |
11-Feb-42 |
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2nd Battalion The Duke of
Wellington's Regiment |
14-Feb-42 |
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1st Battalion, The Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles) |
21-Feb-42 |
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2nd Royal Tank Regiment |
21-Feb-42 |
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7th Queen's Own Hussars |
21-Feb-42 |
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'A' Battery, 95th Antitank
Regiment, RA |
21-Feb-42 |
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414 Battery, Royal Horse
Artillery |
21-Feb-42 |
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March 1942
| 17 Indian Infantry Division |
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1st Field Regiment, Indian
Artillery |
03-Mar-42 |
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70th Field Company, Bengal
Sappers and Miners |
03-Mar-42 |
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1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha
Rifles |
03-Mar-42 |
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1st (KGO) Battalion, 11th Sikh
Regiment |
03-Mar-42 |
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2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier
Force Rifles |
03-Mar-42 |
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8th Heavy Antiaircraft Battery,
RA |
03-Mar-42 |
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1st Battalion, The Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers (arrived by air at Magwe) |
09-Mar-42 |
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13 May 2001
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