94 years old
... yet still determined to march ... in Liverpool's 2014 Remembrance Day parade ... albeit, with some assistance.
He's a veteran off the 13th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment, and one of Wingate's famous WW2 "Chindits.
The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, otherwise known as the Chindits, was gradually formed in the area around Jhansi in the summer of 1942. Wingate took charge of the training of the troops in the jungles of central India during the rainy season.
Half of the Chindits were British: coming from the 13th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment and men from the former Bush Warfare School in Burma, who were formed into 142 Commando Company. The other portion of the force consisted of the 3rd Battalion, the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (a battalion that had only just been raised) and the 2nd Battalion, the Burma Rifles (a composite unit formed from several depleted battalions of Burmese troops that had retreated into India in 1942.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindits
As an aside, my paternal grandfather served, fought and died with The King's Liverpool Regiment in WW1's 'Battle of Passchendaele'. And, there in Passchendaele, my granddad's remains still lay.
94 years old
... yet still determined to march ... in Liverpool's 2014 Remembrance Day parade ... albeit, with some assistance.
He's a veteran off the 13th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment, and one of Wingate's famous WW2 "Chindits.
The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, otherwise known as the Chindits, was gradually formed in the area around Jhansi in the summer of 1942. Wingate took charge of the training of the troops in the jungles of central India during the rainy season.
Half of the Chindits were British: coming from the 13th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment and men from the former Bush Warfare School in Burma, who were formed into 142 Commando Company. The other portion of the force consisted of the 3rd Battalion, the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (a battalion that had only just been raised) and the 2nd Battalion, the Burma Rifles (a composite unit formed from several depleted battalions of Burmese troops that had retreated into India in 1942.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindits
As an aside, my paternal grandfather served, fought and died with The King's Liverpool Regiment in WW1's 'Battle of Passchendaele'. And, there in Passchendaele, my granddad's remains still lay.