At the outbreak of WW2 Jack was recalled to the Army with the Coldstream Guards in a training role with the rank of sergeant. After Dunkirk he decided that he would rather be in a fighting unit, so was commissioned from Sandhurst in 1940 and joined the West Yorkshire Regiment.
Jack was involved in the First Burma Campaign in 1942 where he was Adjutant to Brig. P C Marindin, later to be Commander Lushai Brigade. The citation in 1944 for Jack’s Military Cross reads — ‘ During the retreat from Burma this Officer was my Adjt., he deserved the MC on several occasions and his work throughout was invaluable and of the very highest order.’
During March 1944 Jack was given the task of raising and training a new guerrilla unit which came to be known as the Lushai Scouts. As there were so few Officers he had to undertake this task single-handed, travelling into the Lushai Hills to raise 400 troops. By this stage in the War the Japanese had pushed beyond Tiddim in the Chin Hills, with heavy fighting in the Kohima and Imphal areas.
. The Lushai Hills lay to the rear of the Japanese and to the west of the Chin Hills. This remote area required specialist troops and Brig. Marindin, Commander ‘V’ force, had been very firm in his orders. He said that although the Lushai Scouts would be used as guerrillas in the rear of the enemy they had to be raised and trained as regular troops. Their speciality was to be jungle warfare with special emphasis on mobility and minimum transport.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:03 am
Chhiar ila..
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:03 am
Chh1ar i1a.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:07 am
@2, lol2
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:07 am
WW2 kaihhnawih hi chu a ngaihnawm vek. Lung hi lo ti leng ve ringawt zel bawk a. Source hi naktukah chhiar teh ang.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:09 am
#2 chu a intimualpho hleeeeee mai hahaha ti hian awm reng teh se
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:11 am
Aduh, WW sawi takah chuan, ‘War Horse’ tih kha i en tawh em? hmuhnawm tawp! ka mittui tla nasa mai. Directed by steven spielberg.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:11 am
Neville Longbottom te nen an inchhung em le?
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:12 am
bmw war horse ka la en lo, ka lo en anga ka lo tap ang.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:18 am
aduh, thrah loh pawh tum mahla, i trap tho ang ( if u love animals). Indo laiin mihring thih nasat zia chu thudang, ran hovin an lo tuar ve nasat zia an tihlanna ni ber…
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:20 am
the horse whisperer kha i en/chhiar tawh em… ka chiang tawhlo a story kha.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:21 am
Tawng let tu ka mamawh e
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:26 am
Kei pawh ngaihnawm deuhin min han leh sak teh u.
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:30 am
nee lai tak khi ka va duh ee
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:31 am
A va ngaihnawm em em ve!
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:33 am
A link a mi nen lam ka chhiar chhuak dap e. Tui river a tih khi Tut river tih niawm zawk tak a ni.
@5 laladuh misualpa..
A time chu a inang tho 
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February 25th, 2012 at 12:33 am
min va’n first khalh nasa hlawm ee
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February 25th, 2012 at 1:49 am
Related Post a, “The Lushai Scouts” khi
Lawmthu sawiin kan OT mai:
mr.Duhlova chu Mumbai lamah an missionary thil pawimawha kalin tunah a cham mek a. Kapu, kanu putea damdawiinah enkawlmek anih alo hria a. Hun cheptak karah minlo kan sak vangin ka lawm takzer tih misual memberte ka han hriattir che u a ni e. Pathian-in nasa lehzualin an rawngbawl naah malsawm zel turin ka duhsakna ka hlan e. hairehai
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February 25th, 2012 at 1:49 am
I keep a booklet by Hranga on Lushai Scouts … I read a piece of it … I do appreciate their zeal and bravery struggles! They created our today.
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February 25th, 2012 at 2:37 am
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February 25th, 2012 at 6:02 am
Ngaihnawm ka va ti em! A link nen khian ka chhiar chhuak dap a, ka save hmak bawk. Kan thawhpui Dr. Graham Longbottom kan nei mek a, ka han entir nghe nghe teh ang!!.
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February 25th, 2012 at 8:05 am
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February 25th, 2012 at 9:10 am
A ngaihnawm hle mai.
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February 25th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
@lrp: i post hi ka google chhuak tawh, British Archive atangin an hming (Lushai Scouts) list a lak chhuah theih a, i hman hunah va kal la a tha ang (my humble request).
Maj. R.K.Hranga ziah kha kei pawn ka kawl thin a, Virgochhas-in a hawh a, Superstaring a pe chhawng a, SS-in midang……a tawpah chuan a awmna an hre ta lo
LUSHAI nih hi a nuam ka ti
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February 26th, 2012 at 2:27 am
he thil hi chu tha ka ti khop mai..british army ka in tarvew na ah kan sawi tel a ice braker ah..kan huai sen zia leh ramhnuai ah chet tlat kan thiam zia vel lai khi..ka tlin ve phah in ka hria..chu mi zawh ah..ka print a.officer ho te ka pe vek bok e..
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February 26th, 2012 at 3:21 am
History
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February 26th, 2012 at 5:33 am
Sap officer thi hi Lushai Scouts in X-mas dawn a an kah ni in ka hre tlat pek a. A thih dawn in ” Longbottom, where are you?” tiin a au e an ti.
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