patches Posted February 11, 2022 Share #1 Posted February 11, 2022 Just found this one, the 36th Infantry Division Formation Sign on a Bush Hat, Tommy there having a light moment with a Nationalist Chinese Soldier in Burma 1944. Link to comment
patches Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share #2 Posted June 8, 2022 Found another photo of a 36th Infantry Division Formation Sign on the Bush Hat in Burma, and with Soldier chatting or trying to chat with a Chinese Nationalist Solder like in first post, date given March 1945. The 36th Infantry Division was a British Division by March 1945, having initially been the 36th Indian Division, and had all its Indian Battalions transferred out apparently, with the British ones being assigned, but from December 1944 had the 26th Indian Brigade attached to it, it consisted of the 2nd Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), 2nd Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment 1st Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment and the 1st Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles. Indian Soldier here is of the 1st Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment. Confusingly, in April 1945 the 26th Indian Brigade itself becomes British, with all the Indian units transferred out. Link to comment
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