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The Raj At War: A People's History of India's Second World War (Random House India, 2015); published in US and UK as India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War (Oxford U.P. 2015) L, Klemen (2000). "Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011
During the Second World War (1939–1945), India was a part of the British Empire. British India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939. [ 1 ] India, as a part of the Allied Nations , sent over two and a half million soldiers to fight under British command against the Axis powers .
Shortly before the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, the 4th Indian Division was reunited with the 7th Brigade returning from Cyprus and the 161st Indian Infantry Brigade was attached (until December 1942) to replace the lost 11th Brigade. The division had a relatively subsidiary role in the battle, holding in stiff fighting, as a ...
Lentaigne joined British Indian Army as second lieutenant in October 1918 in 4th Gurkha Rifles. He fought in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. During the Second World War , he commanded a battalion during the 1942 Burma Campaign and was later given command of 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade .
He was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery as a Second Lieutenant in November 1941. His first assignment was with 26 (Jacobs) Mountain Battery in Razmak , North West Frontier Province . He was later assigned to 15 (Jhelum) Mountain Battery which, as part of the 50th Parachute Brigade , fought against the Japanese during the Second World ...
He was the first Indian to be honoured with this decoration during the Second World War. Returning to India in October 1942, Rajendrasinhji was appointed commandant of 2 Royal Lancers in 1943. [ 10 ] In May 1945, he was appointed the army's Deputy Director of Public Relations and posted to Washington, with a further appointment as military ...
By World War II, Thorat was a lieutenant colonel and commanded battalions during the Burma campaign against Japan. [3] He attended Staff College, Quetta in 1941 and after a brief posting to the army HQ, Thorat joined the 4th battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment, which, as part of the 114th Indian Infantry Brigade under the 7th Indian Infantry Division, played a role in clearing Japanese forces from ...
On 12 October 1942, Lehl was selected for a temporary British Indian Army commission from the Indian Military Academy. [4] [5] After training at the School of Artillery, Deolali, he received an emergency commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Indian Artillery on 11 July 1943. [1]