cWW2 Burma Rifles Cloth Shoulder Title Badge

cWWII, scarce serif 'Burma Rifles' cloth shoulder title. Some moth damage. Poppers to reverse.


The 2nd Battalion participated in the 1st and 2nd Chindit expeditions into Burma. In his official report following the first expedition Orde Wingate the Chindit commander wrote:

I would like to record here that I have never had under my command in the field as good a body of men as the 2nd Burma Rifles. As a result, for the 1943 Chindit operation, the battalion was expanded and broken down into reconnaissance platoons for the Chindit columns. In 1944, the battalion was broken down into three detachments for attachment to Special Forces units among the Chindit force.

In 1945, the 2nd Burma Rifles was reconstituted as an infantry battalion. In July 1945, the 1st battalion was re-raised in Burma. Over the following three years leading up to Burmese independence, the 3rd through 6th battalions were re-raised.

Code: 2015