Our objective was Hill with a code name Brighton. It was about / yards long north 15 South; a wooded feature over ft high at the highest point.
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Trevor asked Bde for reinforcements. Trevor asked to have this Troop made available as close as possible for immediate action. Flatley and 6 men of 4 Troop 5 Commando were sent forward on the EAST slope to deal with enemy snipers who were active on the flank. Casualties were inflicted on the enemy.
The other Platoon of 1 Troop 5 Commando was engaged at the foot of the EAST slope, where further casualties were inflicted on the enemy. Pollitt was wounded when returning from 4 Troop 1 Commando position. Major Stuart 5 Commando who had taken over from Col. At this stage the enemy's furious attacks had ceased and only a few snipers remained active. Smith and ordered by Col.
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Trevor to report to Major Davies 1 Commando. Trevor himself, and the Brigadier ordered that the position should be thus held during the night. Trevor then handed over temporarily to Capt. Evill and left the position to find the Brigadier.
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Trevor [view] who was on his way back. After holding a conference with Col. Trevor and Major Stuart, the latter readily agreed to bring up a fresh Troop to relieve 1 Commando who had had no rest that day. Beard arrived to relieve 1 Commando forward Troops, who were withdrawn to old positions for the night. Platoon 3 Troop 1 Commando centre?
Platoon W Troop 42 Commando. Jones to move forward with one Platoon forward and one Platoon back, with track as dividing line between leading sections. Rear of 4 Troop 1 Commando positions. At approx hrs. Young Mortar Platoon with a small party of men made three attempts to reach the bomb dump but this was under enemy machine gun fire and they were driven back. In the last attempt Cpl. Young [view] was hit and subsequently died of his wounds.
Boyes attempted to reach Cpl. Young but was unable to do so owing to the heavy fire. It was impossible to get ammunition from this source to the 3" mortars. At approx hours. The only personnel available to carry ammunition to the forward Troops were No.
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This was a dangerous mission as the ammunition party was continuously under fire enemy snipers. Gardner 1 Commando A. This ammunition arrived in time to supply the forward troops with everything they required. The supply was effectively maintained by the untiring efforts of 12 Troop 1 Commando who not only carried forward the ammunition but evacuated casualties on the return journey when there were not sufficient stretcher bearers available.
It must here be mentioned that only 6 ORs of 12 Troop could be used at any one time as their position still had to be manned. Towards evening the men from 12 Troop who had been working all day then volunteered to take as much water as they could carry to the forward Troops, in addition to the normal ammunition supplies. At no time were the forward troops desperately short of ammunition. They were evacuated satisfactorily by Indian stretcher bearers.
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Here it was able to supervise essential first aid and to organise evacuation from 4 Troop in front, and the Troops on the flanks. The Indian bearers worked well until midday. After this time only about 4 parties were seen at the R. The Indian bearers were difficult to marshal owing to the language obstacle.
Troop orderlies worked forward with the defending or counter-attacking Troops and did excellent medical work under difficult conditions. The former had gone forward to the front trenches early in the battle and having dressed four men who were wounded manned one of the Brens but was killed when his position was overrun. Forward Observation Officer with his two men still alive. The gap left between these two had left a gap for the Matzu detachment to make their desperate attack on Hill The result of the battle was that the Commandos lost 45 killed and 90 wounded. In the next ten days units of Regimental Group lost men and quantities of equipment as they tried to escape from 74 Brigade and 51 Brigade and 82 West African Division.
He had received the first blows and the failure to take Hill upset the whole of the Japanese attack. The whole battle cost the Japanese approximately casualties. The decorations for this battle No. Further searches in the days after the battle around Hill found further bodies making a total of During this battle 25 Indian Division has had casualties of which had been killed in action, 3 Commando Brigade included in the Division had had casualties of which 66 had been killed in action.
In Burma on 31st January , near Kangaw, Lieutenant Knowland was commanding the forward platoon of a Troop positioned on the extreme North of a hill which was subjected to very heavy and repeated enemy attacks throughout the whole day. Before the first attack started, Lieutenant Knowland's platoon was heavily mortared and machine gunned, yet he moved about among his men keeping them alert and encouraging them, though under fire himself at the time.
When the enemy, some strong in all, made their first assault they concentrated all their efforts on his platoon of 24 men but in spite of the ferocity of the attack, he moved about from trench to trench distributing ammunition, and firing his rifle and throwing grenades at the enemy, often from completely exposed positions. Later, when the crew of one of his forward Bren guns had all been wounded, he sent back to Troop Headquarters for another crew and ran forward to man the gun himself until they arrived.
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The enemy was then less than 10 yards from him in dead ground down the hill so in order to get a better field of fire, he stood on top of the trench, firing the light machine gun from his hip and successfully keeping them at a distance until a Medical Orderly had dressed and evacuated the wounded men behind him.
The new Bren gun team also became casualties on the way up and Lieutenant Knowland continued to fire the gun until another team took over. Later, when a fresh attack came in he took over a 2 inch Mortar and in spite of heavy fire and the closeness of the enemy, he stood up in the open to face them, firing the mortar from his hip and killing six of them with his first bomb. When all the bombs were expended he went back through heavy grenade, mortar and machine gun fire to get more, which he fired in the same way from the open in front of his platoon positions.
When those bombs were finished he went back to his own trench and still standing up fired his rifle at them. Being hard pressed and with the enemy closing in on him from only 10 yards away, he had no time to re-charge his magazine. Snatching up the Tommy gun of a casualty, he sprayed the enemy and was mortally wounded stemming this assault, though not before he had killed and wounded many of the enemy.
Such was the inspiration of his magnificent heroism, that, though fourteen out of twenty-four of his platoon became casualties at an early stage, and six of his positions were over-run by the enemy, his men held on through twelve hours of continuous and fierce fighting until reinforcements arrived. If this Northern end of the hill had fallen the rest of the hill would have been endangered, the beach-head dominated by the enemy and other units farther inland cut off from their source of supplies.
As it was, the final successful counter-attack was later launched from the vital ground which Lieutenant Knowland had taken such a gallant part in holding. Lieutenant Knowland, who had been born at Catford in Kent, was only 22 when he was killed. Website Terms and Conditions. Web View Mobile View.
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Even when the rest of the character is "of confused etymology," as Henshall likes to say, the left part remains solid in its meaning of "hill. According to Henshall, the part on the left is "hill," whereas the part on the right acts phonetically to express "combine. The sentence translates as follows: The hilliness is less apparent in the present-day meanings of several other kanji, but again, if you dig into them thar hills, you find etymological gold.
Sorry, I couldn't resist! To put it much more simply, Henshall says that the left sides of the following characters mean "hill":. The part on the right acts phonetically to express "barrier. The right side literally means "to pile up. The right side expresses "to fall," as well as "low place. What with all these obstructions, hills can certainly be a nuisance! However, in the next examples, they're helpful:. Henshall says that the right side means "side"!
A hill on one side symbolizes "defense," which extends to "prevention.