Formation badges of the West Africa Divisions

Rob Fleming, the Templer Study Centre Manager at the National Army Museum, talks about the formation badges of the 81st and 82nd (West Africa) Divisions, and the soldiers who served with them in Burma during the Second World War.

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Recorded from home during the UK's Covid-19 lockdown.

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[dougc]

Nice to see the RWAFF getting some attention, my late father was an NCO in the Gold Coast Regiment.

[andrewculley]

Recently found photographs and newspaper clippings about my grandfather Sgt Alan Mckie who was tasked with moving equipment in 1945 with the 82nd to set up a jeep service depot during the push inland. It took 3 days for them to get across the hills pushing motorcycles and equipment up hills and lower down on ropes. They were met with flat land after that with no shade from the sun. The locals and the Reme then had to make rafts to cross the river and set up the depot. Amazing men, very proud of him.