X-Nico

unusual facts about Fourteenth Army



254th Indian Tank Brigade

The 254th Indian Tank Brigade was an armoured brigade of the Indian Army during World War II, it was part of the Fourteenth Army and saw action in the Burma Campaign.

Battle of Elephant Point

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.

James Howard Williams

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.

John Nunneley

In 1944 the battalion spearheaded the advance of the Fourteenth Army down the Kabaw Valley.


see also