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    I think I'm right in saying 'Road Past Mandalay'.

    An oddity being that so many Englishmen were and are recruited into the highland regiments: and often because of the kilt!

    Whilst my own London based regiment provided the machine gun bn for 51st highland in WW2.

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    I found an interesting account of "The Chindit War in Burma":

    http://stickgrappler.tripod.com/bando/c26.html

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    Burma...

    think I'm right in saying 'Road Past Mandalay'.

    An oddity being that so many Englishmen were and are recruited into the highland regiments: and often because of the kilt!

    Whilst my own London based regiment provided the machine gun bn for 51st highland in WW2.
    "Mr. Kipling's Army" by Farwell tells how those English officers were "made" into Scotsman; they were required to drink a quaich-full (a small Highland drinking cup with two handles) of whisky with a thistle at the bottom. Once the quaich was drained, the new "Scot" would turn it over, and kiss the bottom! :mrgreen:

    I love "Bugles and a Tiger", and "A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles" by Scott Gilmore, however, for a narrative of the Burma Campaign, George MacDonald Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here" is one of the best.

    Thanks for the web site, Rigged -- I'll have to peruse that later.

    Cheers,

    Todd

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