Road of Bones (75 page)

p. 36 ‘barbarous tribes’
J. McCosh, civil assistant surgeon of Goalpara, 1835, cited by Kekhriesituo Yhome in
Politics of Region: The Making of
Nagas Identity during the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era
, [Borderlands e-journal, Volume 6 No. 3, 2007].

p. 36 ‘armed with only spears’
Colonel L. W. Shakespear,
History of the
Assam Rifles
(Naval and Military Press, reprint, 2005), p 19.

p. 37 ‘A party from one village’
NA, WO 106/141, Detailed Report on the Naga Hills Expedition of 1879–80, by Captain P. J. Maitland, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General.

p. 37 ‘They would cut close’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 37 ‘Before, the British did’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 39 ‘had not in all respects’
NA, WO 106/141, Detailed Report on the Naga Hills Expedition of 1879–80.

p. 39 ‘pitiful sight it was’
RMAA, Pawsey Papers, The Siege of Kohima.

p. 40 ‘This had the desired effect’
NA, WO 106/141, Detailed Report on the Naga Hills Expedition of 1879–80.

p. 40 ‘Their lands have all been’
Ibid.

p. 40 ‘the Nagas have asked’
Hansard, Parl. Debs. (series 3) vol. 260, col. 364 (31 March 1881).

p. 41 ‘break[ing] the Kuki spirit’
NA, WO 106/58, Report presented by Lieutenant General Sir H. D’U. Keary, General Officer Commanding Burma Division, Maymyo, June 1919, cited in Dispatch on the Operations against the Kuki Tribes of Assam and Burma, November 1917 to March 1919.

p. 41 ‘For had they not surrendered’
Ibid.

p. 41 ‘energetically carried out’
Ibid.

p. 41 ‘Presumably the District Commissioner’
Hansard, Parl. Debs (vol 301), cc1343–54 (10 May 1935).

p. 42 ‘they are an extremely moral people’
Ibid.

p. 42 ‘There was overwhelming evidence’
Ibid.

p. 42 ‘whatever they eat’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 42 ‘Civilisation was no good’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 42 ‘Any observer of the’
B.R.Rizvi,
J.P.Mills and the North-East
, p.76, in
The Anthropology of North-East India
, ed. by Tanka Bahadur Subba and G. C. Ghosh (Longman Orient, 2003).

p. 43 ‘My friend’
Gordon Graham,
The Trees are All Young on Garrison Hill
(Kohima Educational Trust, 2005), p. 31.

p. 45 ‘Some of them gave us’
Cited at .

p. 45 ‘As a result, the battalion’
Captain H. L. T. Radice,
The 28th in Assam, 1942–43
, Back Badge Magazine, 1950.

p. 45 ‘It [was] a lovely place’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 18283, interview with Dennis Dawson.

p. 46 ‘Everywhere these patrols went’
Radice,
The 28th in Assam, 1942–43.

p. 46 ‘living with two wives’
NA, WO 203/4637, Miscellaneous papers relating to the battle of Kohima.

p. 46 ‘from a Naga who’
Ibid.

p. 46 ‘To our great relief’
IWM, file no. 12438 03/23/1, diary of Lieutenant B. K. ‘Barry’ Bowman.

p. 48 ‘The Pahok headman was’
Ibid.

p. 48 ‘I decided not to hang’
Ibid.

p. 49 ‘Experienced officers were wounded’
IWM, file no. 97/36/1, R. A. W. Binny, The Story of V Force.

p. 49 ‘A heavily loaded man’
NA, WO 172/4585, Appendix A, Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Ord.

p. 49 ‘When somebody died’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 49 ‘very fond of biting’
The Story of ‘V’ Force – The Phantom Army of
Burma
, NAM 9412-188-27.

p. 49 ‘Later, along the whole front’
Field Marshal Lord Slim,
Defeat into
Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p. 148.

p. 50 ‘Good. Remember I back you’
The Story of ‘V’ Force – The Phantom
Army of Burma
, NAM 9412-188-27.

p. 50 ‘There was a great deal’
Ursula Graham Bower, interview with Professor Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University.

p. 50 ‘If you come home’
Ibid.

p. 51 ‘knitting interminable jumpers’
Ibid.

p. 51 ‘gone completely off’
Ibid.

p. 51 ‘I hadn’t realised that’
Ursula Graham Bower,
Naga Path
(John Murray, 1952), p. 37.

p. 51 ‘It was a giddy path’
Ibid.
, p. 38.

p. 51 ‘She [Gaidiliu] was tall’
Ursula Graham Bower interview with Professor Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University.

p. 52 ‘if they must have a goddess’
Ibid.

p. 53 ‘So sorry but I’ve’
Graham Bower,
Naga Path
, p. 164.

p. 53 ‘He was superb’
Ibid.
, p. 167.

p. 53 ‘We waved back’
Ibid.
, p. 168.

p. 53 ‘not always of the’
Ibid.
, p. 139.

p. 54 ‘He had an intense’
Graham Bower,
Naga Path
, p. 58.

p. 54 ‘He was very protective’
Interviewed by Mark Tully, ‘Stand at East’, BBC Radio 4, 11 June 2005.

p. 54 A Hangrum man [stood] up’
Graham Bower,
Naga Path
, p. 173.

p. 55 ‘the lame, the halt and blind’
Ibid.

p. 55 ‘When she spoke’
Ebenezer Jones, interviewed by Mark Tully, ‘Stand at East’, BBC Radio 4, 11 June 2005.

p. 55 ‘Japanese in great numbers’
RMAA, Pawsey Papers, Part 2: The Year 1942.

p. 56 ‘In the Naga Hills’
NA, WO 208/799, Assam-internal situation, official communications and reports, 1942–44.

p. 56 ‘making him the laughing stock’
NA, WO 172/4585, V Force intelligence summaries and diaries.

p. 56 ‘We had not been so bitter’
Graham Bower,
Naga Path
, p. 187.

p. 59 ‘The stubborn alertness’
H. D. Chaplin,
The Queen’s Own Royal West
Kent Regiment, 1920–1950
(Michael Joseph, 1954).

p. 59 ‘the Drill Hall proved’
Wally Jenner, ‘Wally’s War’, private memoir.

p. 59 ‘I was getting one shilling’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 60 ‘and I was happy because’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 60 ‘Lack of literacy may’
James Estlin,
What Impact Did the Great War
Have on the Community of Tonbridge School
, Remembrance Day Essay, Tonbridge School, 2008, citing ‘The
Tonbridgian’ school magazine
, 1917.

p. 60 ‘There was a place’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 61 ‘Our whole bloody battalion’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 61 ‘We were like sheep’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 20461, interview with Ivan Daunt.

p. 62 ‘like a soldier’
Wally Jenner, ‘Wally’s War, private memoir.

p. 62 ‘And when I said no’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 63 ‘We were all bloody miserable’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 63 ‘toughening up marches’
NA, WO 169/5027.

p. 63 ‘I got down’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 64 ‘I was thinking I was’
IWM, 17537, Oral History Project, interview with Donald Easten.

p. 64 ‘However I didn’t blow’
Ibid.

p. 64 ‘wonderful moonlight night’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 64 ‘became considerably disorganised’
Ronald Walker,
The Official
History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945: Alam Halfa and Alamein
(Historical Publications Branch, 1967), p. 130.

p. 64 ‘The silence was shattered’
Chaplin,
The Queen’s Own Royal West
Kent Regiment, 1920–1950.

p. 65 ‘The intelligence wasn’t thorough’
IWM 20461, interview with Ivan Daunt.

p. 65 ‘thrown away in a’
Chaplin,
The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent
Regiment, 1920–1950
, p. 217.

p. 65 ‘a complete cock-up’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 66 ‘ten good milk cows’
Thomas Dinsdale Hogg,
My Life Story
(privately published, 1998).

p. 66 ‘suffered terribly from’
Ibid.

p. 66 ‘A lot of them had’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 20461, Ivan Daunt.

p. 66 ‘This particular trick’
Hogg,
My Life Story.

p. 67 ‘I was supplied with a jeep’
Hogg,
My Life Story.

p. 67 ‘We had to stop’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 67 ‘Congratulations to Mr. H. Crispin Smith’
Ballards School magazine, 1939, cited in memorial address for Harry Crispin Smith (1913–2007), by Peter Harrison, 30 April, 2007.

p. 68 ‘who wouldn’t think twice’
Harry Smith,
Memories of a Hostile Place
(privately published).

p. 68 ‘When he heard we were’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 69 ‘Playboy of India’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 69 ‘there was a faint hint’
E. B. Stanley Clark and A. T. Tillot,
From Kent to Kohima
(Gale and Polden, 1951), p. 30.

p. 70 ‘The whole operation’
Robert Kay,
Bob’s Stories
(privately published).

p. 71 ‘all mangled and his legs’
IWM Oral History Project, file no. 20461, Ivan Daunt.

p. 71 ‘staggered to see Indian bodies’
Michael Lowry,
Fighting Through to
Kohima
(Pen and Sword, 2003), p. 21.

p. 72 ‘Every station brought’
IWM, Swinson Papers, NRA 28568, diary of Captain Arthur Swinson.

p. 72 ‘without exposing one square inch’
Ibid.

p. 72 ‘there would be tables’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 72 ‘swept towards the train’
Robert Street,
A Brummie in Burma
(Barny Books, 1997), p. 13.

p. 73 ‘It was so strange’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 73 ‘for me always the smell’
Smith,
Memories of a Hostile Place.

p. 75 ‘He fought and marched’
Field Marshal Lord Slim,
Defeat into
Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p. 538.

p. 75 “the sort of jungle’
Michael Lowry,
Fighting Through to Kohima
(Pen and Sword, 2003), p. 71.

p. 76 ‘very formidable obstacles’
Dispatch by General Sir George J. Giffard, Commander-in-Chief 11 Army Group, South-East Asia
Command, 19 June 1945, published in the
London Gazette
, 13 March 1951.

p. 76 ‘our troops were either’
IWM, Irwin Papers, 10516 P 139, Report on a Visit to the Maungdaw Front from 4/5/43–9/5/43.

p. 76 At one point recruits
Ashley Jackson,
The British Empire and the
Second World War
(Hambledon Continuum, 2006), p. 363.

p. 77 ‘To lunch they go’
Hornbeck Papers, box 180, cited in Christopher Thorne,
Allies of a Kind
(Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 133.

p. 78 ‘the danger of raising’
NA, CAB 120/29, cited in David Bercuson and Holger G. Herwig,
One Christmas in Washington – Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005), p. 220.

p. 79 ‘triumph of having got’
President Roosevelt to Lord Mountbatten, 8/11/43. PSF/Box 36/A330NN01. Franklin D.Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.