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Factfile
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Benjimen Macrae, MM, served as an NCO with 2nd Battalion Royal
Norfolk Regiment in India and Burma from 1942 to1945. Here
he talks about the fighting on GPT (or Kohima) Ridge, Burma
in 1944 (sound
extract)
Transcript (.pdf)
Extract:
'A Force of Their
Own' [.pdf file]
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Benjimen
Macrae
was born in Chiswick of a white mother and a black African
father. He was adopted when young and separated from his younger
brother Ramsay whom he did not meet again until after the
Second World War (see Lilian Bader's story in
Women at War) He was called-up on in 1940 and sent to India for
training. He participated
in the Burma campaign and won the Military Medal.
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