161st Indian Infantry Brigade 6th Infantry Brigade
31st Infantry Division
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Burma campaign
Japanese invasion of Burma (1941–1942)
Bilin River
Sittang Bridge
Pegu
Taukkyan
Yunnan-Burma Road
Tachiao
Oktwin
Toungoo
Shwedaung
Prome
Yenangyaung
Burma campaign (1942–1943)
Arakan
The Hump
Chindits
Burma campaign (1943–1944)
Chindits (II)
Admin Box
U Go
Imphal
Shangshak
Tennis Court
Kohima
Myitkyina
Mogaung
Northern Burma and Western Yunnan (1943–1945)
Mount Song
Burma campaign (1944–1945)
Meiktila and Mandalay
Pakokku
Hill 170
Ramree Island
Tanlwe Chaung
Dracula
Elephant Point
Sittang Bend
The Battle of the Tennis Court was part of the wider Battle of Kohima that was fought in North East India from 4 April to 22 June 1944 during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War. The Japanese advance into India was halted at Kohima in April 1944 and Garrison Hill, on a long wooded ridge on a high ridge west of the village, was, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission the scene of "perhaps the most bitter fighting of the whole Burma campaign when a small Commonwealth force held out against repeated attacks by a Japanese Division".[1] During the siege of Kohima, heavy fighting, including hand-to-hand combat, occurred in the grounds surrounding the Deputy Commissioner's bungalow, including the tennis court, beginning around 8 April and continuing until 13 May when the assaulting Japanese troops began withdrawing from the area.
^CWGC staff 2015.
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