Signal Honour: With the Chindits and the Xivth Army in Burma
Painter, Robin
The XIVth Army was the largest British army in World War II and the most ethnically diverse, being made up of a wide variety of British, Indian and African troops. Spearheading the XIVth Army's advance through the Burma jungles were the Chindits, British and Gurkha air commandos who landed behind Japanese lines in gliders for some of the most daring operations of the Second World War.Robin Painter was an officer in the Royal Signals, an especi...