![]() ![]() They slept on their feet.Īnd when they did sleep it was for little more than two hours in turn. Many of the enemy lie round the Kohima Deputy Commissioner’s bungalow, where every inch was contested and no quarter given.įor 13 of the 40 gruelling days part of our forces held out on the besieged Garrison Hill. More than 3,000 Japs lie dead on these hard-won features – Garrison Hill, F.S.D. Kohima Ridge is ours.įrom it our 14 th Army troops – men of famous West Country and Home Counties regiments – can survey all they have won in 40 days of grim hide-and-seek, hand-to-hand fighting. The last Jap has been winkled out of the last bunker. It has been touch-and-go in a terrific slogging match. We have come to the end of 40 days on the Kohima front.įor 40 days and 40 nights we have been plugging hard at the Japs in ‘the fiercest battle of the Burma campaign’. Notes supplied by L J Taylor and Tony Jones It was said that not one egg was broken and the dogs came out wagging their tails. The only room to go unscathed was the storage room where eggs were kept from the chickens that the family farmed. Of the house, all but one room was damaged. The fourth remained in the plane, presumed already dead when the others baled out. ![]() Three baled out in the Hartfield area, out of these three, the parachute of one failed to open, a second died of his wounds in Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, and the third survived, though he broke his leg. ![]() ![]() The cockpit was destroyed in the attack and three of the four crew lost their lives. The bomber was a Junker 88 which developed a fault in its starboard engine and lost formation whilst on a sortie to bomb London. It happened at 9.20 am on Friday 27 th September 1940. Souvenir of memories from people of Felbridge to celebrate the 60 th anniversary of the end of World War IIĪ German bomber took the roof off North End Lodge which was adjacent to Simpson’s Garage, London Road, North End. ![]()
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