1st Bn Somerset Light Infantry

HI Bamboo43
hi sadly its only first names in uncle Arthurs album and the other 2 albums i think are of C company and dont have thing written in
if i find any thing ill let you know

 

here are pictures of a davis and a blake for you

 

Hi Martin,

Thanks for posting the photos for me, very much appreciated.

Steve

 

Have you found the following which covers this period
Arakan
I have two SLI names that I can place in the above on the 01/03/44, Arthur Dick (KIA) and Ken Farr (wounded but still living in Somerset).

 

Have you found the following which covers this period
Arakan
I have two SLI names that I can place in the above on the 01/03/44, Arthur Dick (KIA) and Ken Farr (wounded but still living in Somerset).

Thanks for the link muddy. I picked up information on Pte. Rostron from there.

 

Hi Everyone,

I'm a new member and I've just been reading through the thread and noticed that some members have photographs of the SLI 1st battalion, which my granfather was a private in.

I've been trying to trace my grandfathers movements whilst in Burma. I know that he was killed on the 26th/27th of January 1944, I'm assuming it was during the assault overnight on that date.

I also know that he enlisted at some point during 1942. His name was Joseph Bradley. I know that he has a grave at the Rangoon War Memorial on face 7.

If anyone has any information and/or pictures relating to the regiment or to my grandfather I would truly appreciate it.

Thanks ever so much

Joe

 

Hi Everyone,


I'm a new member and I've just been reading through the thread and noticed that some members have photographs of the SLI 1st battalion, which my granfather was a private in.


I've been trying to trace my grandfathers movements whilst in Burma. I know that he was killed on the 26th/27th of January 1944, I'm assuming it was during the assault overnight on that date.


I also know that he enlisted at some point during 1942. His name was Joseph Bradley. I know that he has a grave at the Rangoon War Memorial on face 7.

If anyone has any information and/or pictures relating to the regiment or to my grandfather I would truly appreciate it.


Thanks ever so much


Joe

 

Hi Everyone,


I'm a new member and I've just been reading through the thread and noticed that some members have photographs of the SLI 1st battalion, which my granfather was a private in.


I've been trying to trace my grandfathers movements whilst in Burma. I know that he was killed on the 26th/27th of January 1944, I'm assuming it was during the assault overnight on that date.


I also know that he enlisted at some point during 1942. His name was Joseph Bradley. I know that he has a grave at the Rangoon War Memorial on face 7.

If anyone has any information and/or pictures relating to the regiment or to my grandfather I would truly appreciate it.


Thanks ever so much

Joe

 

Hi every one here is a link to a file sharing site I`m in the process of uploading all the photographs of the regiment in India 1939 to 1942 i have and all the information about the regt in Burma i have please go to the site and download as much as you wish
regards martin

click on below

somerset LI 1939 to 1942 - Ge.tt

 

Hi every one here is a link to a file sharing site I`m in the process of uploading all the photographs of the regiment in India 1939 to 1942 i have and all the information about the regt in Burma i have please go to the site and download as much as you wish
regards martin

click on below

somerset LI 1939 to 1942 - Ge.tt

Hi Martin,

Thanks for making all this information available in this way.

 

Hi every one here is a link to a file sharing site I`m in the process of uploading all the photographs of the regiment in India 1939 to 1942 i have and all the information about the regt in Burma i have please go to the site and download as much as you wish
regards martin

click on below

somerset LI 1939 to 1942 - Ge.tt

Wonderful album. Thanks for sharing

 

Wonderful album. Thanks for sharing

It's a fantastic photographic history, probably the best family collection I've seen. The photos of the funeral Cpl. Dalhousie are amazingly atmospheric considering the age of the images.

 

ok folks the next installment will be uploaded on get today this is the link

5 documents - Ge.tt

a list of names that arrived in 1942 to strengthen the regt they were mainly from the OBLI

A 1945 Magazine which was printed in India at the end of the war about the Burma Campaign

an insert for the book which Pte Elgar wrote about his time in the Army from joinins the OBLI in 1942 and his attachment to the 1st battalion and the rest of the war. i also have the full book now and will be uploading the time in the book where he joins the first battalion till the end of the war in the near future.

The letter Keik this is a very interesting document regarding Hill 186 and the loss of 8 men killed by the Japanese in a hospital tent




and finally the ww2 roll of honour of the Somerset light Infantry including all fronts

 

oh and for those who had the chance to have a gurkha curry here is the link to the british army cook book for gurkha cooking

Gurkha Cook Book - Ge.tt

 

ok folks the next installment will be uploaded on get today this is the link

5 documents - Ge.tt

a list of names that arrived in 1942 to strengthen the regt they were mainly from the OBLI

A 1945 Magazine which was printed in India at the end of the war about the Burma Campaign

an insert for the book which Pte Elgar wrote about his time in the Army from joinins the OBLI in 1942 and his attachment to the 1st battalion and the rest of the war. i also have the full book now and will be uploading the time in the book where he joins the first battalion till the end of the war in the near future.

The letter Keik this is a very interesting document regarding Hill 186 and the loss of 8 men killed by the Japanese in a hospital tent




and finally the ww2 roll of honour of the Somerset light Infantry including all fronts



My uncle Walter Francis Savage was killed whilst serving with C company of the Somerset Light Infantry in the Arakan in February 1944. His death is mentioned in the excerpt from Private Elgar's book which is available on the internet. If anyone can tell me where to obtain the book or has any more information about my uncle or C Company I should be very grateful to receive it.

 

Hi,
New to this forum. Just discovered a relative - Major Irwin Leonard Pickett 145192 was in SLI (Prince Alberts) and was killed on 27th March 1944, He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery. Would be grateful for any other details.

 

Although an officer of the Somerset Light Infantry, Maj Pickett was killed at Broadway while commanding a Company of 3/9 Gurkha Rifles.

 

Thank you Charpoy Chindit. That snippit has enabled me to find out a considerable amount of detail.

 

I have a relative who died in 1944/45, named Reginald Ashard. I believe that he is in a war grave in India but there is no mention of him in the Roll of Honour. Does anyone have any details on this please? I do have his army number somewhere, if that is of any help? Other than that, I only know he was in SLI, 1st Battalion and had fought in Burma.