British Military Intelligence: Objects from the Military Intelligence Museum by Nick van der Bijl

Author:Nick van der Bijl [van der Bijl, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 2017-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Tropical Dress Jacket

Above the medals are parachute wings. During the Second World War, some of those who completed parachute training but were not part of the Army Air Corps (airborne forces) wore their wings above the left upper pocket.

Battle Dress Jacket

Service Dress Jacket

Chindit badge and Japanese Cap

Medals of Major Frederick Vernon Webster, Intelligence Corps (India)

In 1942, Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Gregory (Royal Garwhal Rifles), GHQ Head of Intelligence in Calcutta, formed Z Force (Burma) from expatriates who had worked in the Burmese forests and Chin, Kachin and Karen to collect intelligence during the dry seasons on Japanese activities. Major Herbert Casten and Captain Webster, an Anglo-Indian, formed a patrol and during the 1943 Chindit Operation Longcloth guided columns along the ‘Secret Track’ that bypassed Japanese garrisons into Burma. Initially, Z Force patrols from India walked to their operational areas; they were later dropped by parachute. In its three years of existence, Z Force was awarded one CBE, two DSOs, four OBEs, four MBEs, seventeen MCs with Bars to two, and sixteen Burma Gallantry Medals.

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