Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944 Sep 9 - 1944 Nov 19 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
81pp
Scope and content
File containing six typescript battle instructions for 20 Infantry Div by Gracey, entitled, 'Instructions for the advance to contact, when contact is imminent', 'Notes on Burmese villages and villagers-upper and lower Burma', 'Cross-country movement', 'Practical application of the element of surprise in battle against Japanese', 'Planning a deliberate attack, 'Notes on Japanese tactics'; 20 Div Intelligence and security directives; typescript answers from a questionnaire by a Canadian officer, on the fighting strengths of the Japanese; typescript chronology of Burma campaign Oct 1943 to Sep 1944; typescript ration scales; notes for training of 20 Indian Infantry Div, including a pamphlet of 'General Instructions for Exercises', by General Headquarters, India (Ceylon Government Press, Colombo, Ceylon, 1943). 1 pamphlet. 81pp.