The Forgotten Army: A Burma Soldier's Story in Letters, Photographs and Sketches

The Forgotten Army consists of the letters, photos and sketches of a soldier fighting the Japanese in Burma that were sent home to the author's parents in Lancashire.Call-up documents, medical certificate, service pay book, discharge papers, letter index, family tree, news cuttings, leaflets, and 440 letters spanning military service in the army at home, India, Burma and Malaya.Copies of sketches, illustrations, photographs and paintings have been placed with original letters where reference is made.Sketches of the attack on Myitson, and copies of illustrations printed in the magazine Soldier, are the only drawings of wartime actions that have survived. Original portraits in watercolour, pictorial scenes and photographs, have been exhibited at various venues, a larger number have never been on show.In additions to the letters sent to his family, many more were written to his brother Harry serving with the Royal Corps of Signals.Strict censorship regulations on leaving England prohibite