Inspired by many of you who were at the Kohima Commemoration service in York this year, the Kohima Educational Trust (KET) thought you might be interested to contribute to a new idea.
So many of you have stories about your father’s, grandfather’s, great-grandfather’s or other family members’ experiences in the war. These were stories that they may have told you themselves, or you may have heard later from someone else, or you may have discovered after they died. I know there are one or two of you whose mothers or grandmothers were also involved. We thought it would be a wonderful idea to collect as many of your stories as you allow us to and to create a Book of Remembrance, in order to remember these men and women for posterity.
Whether your relative was a private or a general, in Kohima or Schwebo, Imphal or Mandalay, or even involved afterwards in Japan, KET would love to hear from you.
The Book of Remembrance will be a digital, located on the KET website, designed so that we can add more stories as time passes and have them easily accessible by all who are interested to read them. We would like to launch the Book in this 80th Anniversary year of the Battles of Kohima and Imphal and we look forward to expanding it next year, as the 80th Anniversary of VJ Day approaches. We intend to keep it live into the future so that stories can be added continuously.
If there is anyone who would still like to send us their family story. If you have photographs, please do send them as well. Ideally, we would like to receive a photograph(s) of the person involved and we are envisaging 300-400 words per article.
Please send by 31st March 2025.
Send to: remembrance@kohimaeducationaltrust.org
However, if hard copies are your only option, the team would be happy to return material to you after we have taken copies.
