VETERANS of the Second Word War’s Battle of Kohima laid wreaths in York to remember the fallen in what has been described as one of the greatest battles in history.
The seven Kohima veterans now in their nineties, along with others from the Burma Campaign, each laid a wreath of poppies assisted by soldiers from 2 Signal Regiment.
The moving ceremony was held in the Dean’s Gardens adjacent to York Minster, with an outdoor service led by Reverend Nia Williams, Padre to 2 Signal Regiment based in Fulford, York.
The battle of Kohima in North East India was fought from April 4 to June 22, 1944. Nearly 4,000 British and Indian soldiers died when Allied Forces halted the advance of the Japanese army in Asia.
The battle was to prove to be the turning point of the Burma Campaign.
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