Indian scrpt mark translation help needed

spiral · 6th December 2007, 04:31 PM

Thanks Jim, no problem. Yes I wish my father had told someone what it was like when he was still a young man. The men in his unit believed no one would understand the things you have to do when 400 miles behind enemy lines in a jungle for months on end, No hospital evacuations for your wounded mates in those days , to weak to carry the wounded from lack of food or dyssentry & malaria, they coudnt leave them for the japanese to play with. So they had there own pact with each other. How does one explain that to the fallen ones wives & parents?

Thanks Ariel, Yes he was one of the men Wingate selected at the start. My father had utmost respect for him.

He was only young, as most soldiers are.

The cloth badge was his, They only issued it to him when he went on leave at the end of it all.

He never collected his medals & gave away his bush hat & captured Japanese sword. Ive tried to recover them but no luck so far even though Id happily pay double or triple whatever anyone else would for them.

Spiral

6th December 2007, 04:31 PM	#11
spiral Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,712	Thanks Jim, no problem. Yes I wish my father had told someone what it was like when he was still a young man. The men in his unit believed no one would understand the things you have to do when 400 miles behind enemy lines in a jungle for months on end, No hospital evacuations for your wounded mates in those days , to weak to carry the wounded from lack of food or dyssentry & malaria, they coudnt leave them for the japanese to play with. So they had there own pact with each other. How does one explain that to the fallen ones wives & parents? Thanks Ariel, Yes he was one of the men Wingate selected at the start. My father had utmost respect for him. He was only young, as most soldiers are. The cloth badge was his, They only issued it to him when he went on leave at the end of it all. He never collected his medals & gave away his bush hat & captured Japanese sword. Ive tried to recover them but no luck so far even though Id happily pay double or triple whatever anyone else would for them. Spiral