Kohima Museum - York

St Oswald’s Church Hall. 6.30pm April 30th

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After the Battle of Jessami, Lieutenant Colonel ‘Bruno’ Brown led his men of 1st Assam Regiment on a gruelling 78 mile march to Kohima, through relentlessly unforgiving terrain with the Japanese close behind them. They made it in 39 hours. Eighty years later, his grandaughter Charlotte Carty is making the same trek with other descendents of the 1st Assams & historian Robert Lyman. Go Charlotte!

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At the Naga villages of Jessami & Kharasom, between March 27 & April 1 1944, the 1st Assam regiment defied overwhelming numbers of Japanese 31st Division, buying invaluable time to prepare defences at Kohima.

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A webinar by Robert Lyman & Harry Fecitt describing the Battle of Sangshak can be found here.

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March 6^th 1944. 

Japanese 33^rd Infantry Division began crossing Chindwin River, heading for Imphal.