One More River by Brigadier John Constant

One More River - Chapter One

A dozen British officers, with battle-experience of the recently fought operations in the Western Desert of...

One More River - Chapter Two

The course ended, and I returned to Cocanada post-haste to find that it was to close its training role...

One More River - Chapter Three

Our Brigade, camped out strategically in case of the Japanese resurgence, consisted of the usual Indian...

One More River - Chapter Four

Chapter 4 A detailed feature of the Infantry sub unit training, which later proved to be most effective,...

One More River - Chapter Five

Later that evening, returning to Brigade HQ in the jeep with my driver, batman and gunman, all three...

One More River - Chapter Six

While our Brigade was outflanking the Japanese detachments trying to hold successive defence positions on...

One More River - Chapter Seven

Both the 2 company commanders were killed, as was one of the Sapper officers with them; only two assault...

One More River - Chapter Eight

I might mention that the Gordon Highlanderss 10th Battalion had been raised as antitank gunners, and were...

One More River - Chapter Nine

In the bar afterwards, I was talking to a British officer of the Royal Indian Navy, who told me that he had...