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GLOUCESTER REGIMENT IN INDIA: WORLD WAR II

GLOUCESTER REGIMENT IN INDIA: WORLD WAR II

Troop Sergeant Jack Russell (standing centre) with members of the 118 Light Ack-Ack Regiment in Bangalore during World War II. Jack Russell grew up in West Norwood, he enlisted in 1940 and was sent to India before seeing action on the Burma Front in 1944-45. After the war he was promoted to Acting Regimental Sergeant Major, serving with the last of the British Raj forces in India.Digital image by kind permission of Jack Russell. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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Collection:Home Front Project 2005
Image type:Photograph
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Ref:06763
Identifier:SPd4064/1
Date:1943

#1926 - 1950  #Home Front Project 2005  #People  #Photograph  #WAR AND ARMED FORCES