Road of Bones (83 page)

p. 358 ‘A man with an’
Ibid.

p. 359 ‘He was a man who’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 359 ‘There is one thing’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 359 ‘This is the first’
NA, WO 172/5045, War Diary of the 1st Assam Regiment.

p. 360 ‘it was for all’
Robert Street,
A Brummie in Burma
(Barny Books, 1997), p. 58.

p. 360 ‘We scraped out’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 360 ‘Some of them were’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 360 ‘I said, “You know”’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 361 ‘It took about a’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 361 ‘used to sleep in’
NA, WO 203/4637, ‘Personal narratives of Kohima and Imphal Battles.’

p. 361 ‘all eager to get’
E. B. Stanley Clark and A. T. Tillot,
From Kent to
Kohima
(Gale and Polden, 1951), pp. 130–131.

p. 361 ‘Officially he shot four’
NA, WO 203/4637.

p. 361 ‘the abrupt dismissal’
NA, WO 203/4637, ‘Personal narratives of Kohima and Imphal Battles.’

p. 362 ‘walked round and’
NA, WO 172/5045, War Diary of the 1st Assam Regiment. April 1944.

p. 362 ‘tall, sinewy with’
Daily Mail
, 1 May 1944.

p. 363 ‘Perched 5,000 feet up’
Ibid.

p. 363 ‘unless they are willing’
RMAA, Pawsey Papers, Charles Pawsey, miscellaneous correspondence.

p. 363 ‘They are very gentle’
NA, WO 203/4637, interview with Charles Pawsey, ‘Observer with 14th Army.’

p. 363 ‘Sir I am still’
Ibid.

p. 364 ‘every day to see’
RMAA, Pawsey Papers, Narrative of Krusischi Pashkar, Kohima Village.

p. 364 ‘We were taken’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 364 ‘When they had done’
Ursula Graham Bower,
Naga Path
(John Murray, 1952), p. 200.

p. 364 ‘an excuse to let’
Ursula Graham Bower, interview with Professor Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University.

p. 364 ‘lots of offices going’
Ibid.

p. 365 ‘Don’t worry sir’
IWM, file no. 10520 P104, Account of the Operations of 5 Brigade, April – May 1944, Brigadier V. S. F. Hawkins.

p. 365 ‘John Grover’
IWM, Swinson Papers, file no. NRA 28568, diary of General Montagu North Stopford, 18 May 1944.

p. 366 ‘In view of the lack’
33 Indian Corps Account of Operations, vol. 1, 1 April–22 June 1944, p. 14.

p. 366 ‘messing up’
IWM, Swinson Papers, file no. NRA 28568, diary of Lieutenant General Montagu North Stopford.

p. 366 ‘Washington supports’
Ibid.

p. 366 ‘why he must not’
Ibid.

p. 366 ‘Later in the evening’
Ibid.

p. 366 ‘hopelessly sticky and seems’
Ibid.

p. 367 ‘which he did not’
IWM, Swinson Papers, file no. NRA 28568, diary of Lieutenant General Montagu North Stopford.

p. 367 ‘the unavoidable arrival’
Field Marshal Lord Slim,
Defeat into
Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p. 318.

p. 367 ‘Thoroughly satisfactory’
Ibid.

p. 367 ‘a sideline in melancholy’
Slim,
Defeat into Victory
, p. 200.

p. 378 ‘Our stand at Kohima’
NA, CAB 65/42/14, Meeting of War Cabinet, 24 April 1944.

p. 369 ‘could feel the stress’
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War
, vol. 5:
Closing The Ring
(The Reprint Society, 1960 edition), p. 440.

p. 369 ‘Let nothing go’
Cited in
ibid.

p. 369 ‘must be filled’
Ibid.

p. 369 ‘I don’t think any’
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall,
Chief of Staff – The Diaries of Lt.-General Sir Henry Pownall – edited by Brian Bond
(Leo Cooper, 1974), p 165.

p. 370 ‘You did a good job’
Anonymous soldier quoted in
Dohkoku – Burma Campaign for a Newly Recruited Soldier, Retsu Division, 138 Regiment
(Amarume Museum, 1992).

p. 370 ‘Thank you for your’
Ibid.

p. 370 ‘You don’t know my’
Ibid.

p. 371 ‘For this I could’
NDL, interview with official historian, February 1964.

p. 371 ‘Across the valley’
NA, WO 203/4637, account of 14th Army Observer, Kohima, 24 April 1944.

p. 371 ‘It all changed’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 372 ‘Unfortunately these tactics’
NA, WO 203/6324, Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara, ‘15th Army Impressions of Allied tactics and equipment.’

p. 372 ‘I said to myself’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 372 ‘Its appearance had’
Lieutenant General Kotuku Sato, handwritten memoir, for Retsu Division War Veterans Association.

p. 372 ‘so the enemy can’t’
‘Biruma Sensen’ (Recollections of 58th Infantry Regiment), cited in Louis Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
(J. M. Dent, 1984), p. 405.

p. 373 ‘both Right and Left’
Notebook of Major Yamaguchi, Discovered at Milestone 87, HQ of 31 Division Infantry Group, May 1944. .

p. 373 ‘as formidable a position’
Field Marshal Lord Slim,
Defeat into
Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p. 317.

p. 373 ‘Let someone else go’
George L. Senior, Royal Army Medical Corps, personal memoir.

p. 374 ‘He was restless’
Ibid.

p. 374 ‘was always a surprise’
Gordon Graham.
The Trees are All Young on
Garrison Hill
(Kohima Educational Trust, 2005), p. 51.

p. 374 ‘Come with me’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 375 ‘We dashed on them’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 375 ‘I killed somebody’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 375 ‘One man got shot’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 375 ‘It was very heavy’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 375 ‘Please come and stop’
Tokuo Seki,
Burma War Chronicle
(1991), pp. 88–9.

p. 375 ‘In his trench’
Ibid.

p. 376 ‘I saw all dead’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 19596, interview with Yanagi Satoru.

p. 376 ‘Mr Ito who worked’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 377 ‘born in snowy Niigata’
IWM, Swinson papers, file no. NRA 28568, Yukihiko Imai,
To and From Kohima
(1953).

p. 377 ‘They were so hungry’
Ibid.

p. 377 ‘How could he be’
Manabu Wada,
Drifting Down the Chindwin: A
Story of Survival
(Burma Campaign Fellowship Group).

p. 377 ‘From this point on’
NA, WO 203/4637, ‘Personal Narratives of Kohima and Imphal Battles.’

p. 377 ‘Slim was very insistent’
IWM, Swinson Papers, file no. NRA 28568, memorandum of General John Grover.

p. 378 ‘raised the men’s spirits’
R. King-Clark,
The Battle of Kohima 1944 – The Narrative of the 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment
(Fleur de Lys Publishing, Cheshire, 1995), p. 36.

p. 378 ‘As each man had’
George Gordon, Royal Corps of Signals, personal memoir.

p. 378 ‘You drag your legs’
Captain Horner, cited in John Colvin,
Not
Ordinary Men
(Pen and Sword, 1994), p. 174.

p. 379 ‘round staring eyes’
George Gordon, personal memoir.

p. 379 ‘we had hardly fired’
Ibid.

p. 379 ‘Then the “Holy Boys” shouted’
NA, WO 203/4637, ‘Personal Narratives of Kohima and Imphal Battles.’

p. 379 ‘The shouted orders’
Ibid.

p. 380 In one action around
Figures as of 6 May cited in Leslie Edwards,
Kohima: The Furthest Battle
(History Press, 2009), p. 301.

p. 380 ‘Looking at the corpses’
Gordon Graham.
The Trees are All Young on Garrison Hill
(Kohima Educational Trust, 2005), p. 47.

p. 380 ‘look at the great’
Arthur Swinson,
Kohima
(Arrow Books, 1966), p. 218.

p. 381 ‘from both a political’
IWM, file no. 10520 P104, Account of the Operations of 5 Brigade, British 2nd Division, April – June 1944, Brigadier V. S. F. Hawkins.

p. 381 ‘[There were] thousands’
Ibid.

p. 381 ‘We not only overlooked’
Ibid.

p. 381 ‘watching a dozen’
Michael Lowry,
Fighting Through to Kohima
(Pen and Sword, 2003), p. 211.

p. 381 ‘closest thing to a snowball’
Ibid.
, p. 226.

p. 381 ‘did a fair amount’
Ibid.
, p. 228.

p. 381 ‘In cold sweated’
Ibid.

p. 382 ‘I, for one’
Ibid.
, p. 238.

p. 382 ‘As the days passed’
John Shipster,
Mist on the Rice Fields
(Pen and Sword, 2000), p. 55.

p. 382 ‘to respect the dead’
Ibid.

p. 382 ‘Draw near with faith’
‘Militiaman’ [anon.],
Six for the King
(Peace Brothers, 1984), p. 197.

p. 383 ‘That shows you what’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 383 ‘the occupants must’
Memorandum of General John Grover.

p. 383 ‘It got among about’
NA, WO 203/4637, interview with BBC correspondent Richard Sharpe in ‘Personal Narratives of the Kohima and Imphal battles.’

p. 383 ‘The gun couldn’t fire’
Ibid.

p. 384 ‘very much impressed’
IWM, Swinson Papers, file no. NRA 28568, diary of Major General John Grover.

p. 384 ‘part of a force’
John McCann,
Return to Kohima
(privately published, 1993), pp. 410–12.

p. 384 ‘frightened of shadows’
Swinson,
Kohima
, p. 278.

p. 385 ‘The impression was gained’
IWM, Swinson Papers, file no. NRA 28568, letter from David Young, second-in-command Signals, 161 Indian Brigade, to Arthur Swinson, 26 September 1966.

p. 385 ‘we could get no men’
BBC People’s War, Deryck ‘Dick’ Reynolds.

p. 385 ‘General Messervy’
David Young letter to Arthur Swinson.

p. 386 the Captain became
Captain Bob Allen, Cameron Highlanders.

p. 386 ‘He was loyal to’
‘On the Silence of General Grover.’ Gordon Graham. ‘Dekho!’ Winter 2009.

p. 388 ‘but it is useless’
NAM, Major R. B. Houston, ‘The Imphal Campaign’, cited in file no. 1994-12-118-20, Colvin papers.

p. 388 ‘many cases of diarrhoea’
Ibid.

p. 388 ‘can barely keep going’
Ibid.

p. 388 ‘Even to think of’
Ibid.

p. 389 ‘As an officer’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 389 ‘Retsu Division has run’
Cited in Shudo Akiyama,
The Retsu
Division Commander Goes Insane
(Sheuisha, Tokyo 1973).

p. 389 ‘How dare you use’
Ibid.

p. 390 ‘Nothing [of Mutaguchi’s orders]’
NIDS, General Kotuku Sato, Opinion about Imphal Campaign, August 1944.

p. 390 ‘We have fought for’
Lieutenant General Kotuku Sato to 15th Army Headquarters, 26 May 1944.

p. 390 ‘Do as you please’
Cited in Arthur Swinson,
Four Samurai
(Hutchinson, 1968), p. 143.