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On 22 March, as the joint battles of Meiktila and Mandalay were drawing to a close, a conference was held at Monywa in Burma, attended by senior Allied military figures including Admiral Lord Mountbatten, the commander in chief of the Allied South East Asia Command, and General William Slim, commander of Fourteenth Army.
But in October 1942 he joined the staff of the Eastern Army (later the Fourteenth Army as Elephant Advisor to the Elephant Company of the Royal Indian Engineers.