Rangoon Battalion by Fred Millem

Rangoon Battalion: Foreword and Preface - Part 1

Fred joined the Rangoon Battalion BAF which later formed part of the Burma Battalion. Remembering Mum's...

Rangoon Battalion: The Armoured Car Section - Part 2

Thus the Armoured Cars gaily proceeded to Mingaladon airport where we were to train for our war role which,...

Rangoon Battalion: The Anti-Aircraft Company - Part 3

Not only were we getting little or no warning of raids but the Japs often passed directly overhead on their...

Rangoon Battalion: The Evacuation of Rangoon - Part 4

I packed up all my civilian kit and dumped my trunk and boxes at the office where Leach assured me that my...

Rangoon Battalion: The 21st Mile Crossroads - Part 5

Hence the rush to get everything away from Rangoon area and past the 21st mile on the Prome Road and hence...

Rangoon Battalion: The Burma Battalion - Part 6

Unfortunately, however, after we had been at Magwe for only three or four days we received orders to...

Rangoon Battalion: The Railway Transport Operations, Mandalay - Part 7

With the railway south of Thazi in enemy hands, Mandalay station was the busiest and most important station...

Rangoon Battalion: The Pocket Hitler of Myohaung Station - Part 8

The Chinese were then in occupation of Myohaung village and I am glad to say that that night they shot...

Rangoon Battalion: The Evacuation of Mandalay - Part 9

Several of the Burma Battalion officers and about 100 of the men had, for the past two or three weeks, been...

Rangoon Battalion: The Monywa Picnic - Part 10

Actually we learned later that this was yet another miscalculation by the powers that be because, the next...

Rangoon Battalion: Epilogue - Part 11

Of one thing I am certain — that in the course of time the Hukon Valley will become legendary and the...