Private Papers of Major J A Chapman

Ts history (pp1 - 16 only) of the 7th Battalion The Gold Coast Regiment from August 1940 - December 1944 with particular reference to their service with the 81st (West African) Division during the operations in the Arakan and Burma in 1944; together with a slightly different ms draft (8pp) of the final pages of this history and a photocopy of a ts account (5pp) written in the 1980s by Major P B Poore, an officer in the Battalion, describing their very successful battle with the Japanese 111th Regiment at Htabaw in the Kaladan valley in March 1944 and commenting on the nature of the fighting in Burma.

Cataloguer RWAS

Catalogue date 1989-06