The Battle for Kohima

1/8th Battalion XX The Lancashire Fusiliers
The Battle for Komima

Lt Andy Watson GM
15 Platoon C Coy
Aug 1943

1. 3448311 Fus Finlay, 2. Fus Salt, 3. 129474 Lt Watson GM, A P Wounded 26.4.1944
4. 3458612 ? Fus Coates Wounded, 5. Fus Fuller, 6. Fus Tattersall
7. 3442796 Sgt Mayo Tom Wounded 26.4.1944 8, Cpl ? Priestley, 9. Unidentified, 10. 3452028 Sgt Shepherd, John Wounded
11. 3444031 Cpl Hancock Wounded, 12. 3450965 Cpl Penkethman, 13. Fus Henthorne Killed 26.4.1944
14. Unidentified, 15. Unidentified, 16. Fus Donnelly, 17 ****688 Fus Benson Wounded, 18. Fus Murray Wounded
19. Unidentified, 20. 3873792 Fus Noel, 21. 3507123 Fus Clancy Wounded, 22. 3456770 Fus Scarisbrick Killed
23. 3443883 Fus Reid Killed, 24. 3712483 Fus Abbott Killed, 25. 3654472 Fus Wilkes , 26. Unidentified
27. 3455763 Fus Barwick Killed
Cant find Greenwood, Foster R, Guest P, Nuttall

"On 26 April 1944 at about 0530 the Japs launched an attack and Bob Elkin
was killed - our first officer casualty on Merema Ridge

The same morning at about 0930 Lt Andy Watson GM was wounded during an
attack on a Jap bunker

"Knocker" West was killed on 9 June 1944

The history of the Lancashire Fusiliers"
by John Hallam, page 125;
"At 9 am the next day,C Coy was ordered to sieze a small feature held by the
enemy in unknown strength.The Japanese met them with fire from light machine
guns and snipers,but the attack was pressed home and the feature taken at
the cost of 7 Other Ranks killed and Lieutenant A.P Watson GM wounded"

Link to Captain Bentley @ Kohima