Having left school aged 16, he retrained after the war as a physicist and researched anaesthetic machines for the British ... the Burma Campaign. In November 1944, Newland was at 14th Army HQ ...
In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...