Over the past two years, Grammar Productions has been traveling half way round the world to record the experiences of WW2 veterans who fought for the British in the Burma Campaign. Our film ‘Forgotten Allies’ will tell the story of these incredible men and the charity trying to bring them the recognition they deserve in their final years.
TRAILER:
INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/forgotten-allies-documentary
While British soldiers who served in Burma were known as ‘The Forgotten Army’, local soldiers’ incredible stories were barely even heard of in Britain. They served side by side with British officers, in a brutal war against the Japanese, in extremely difficult conditions.
Like David Daniel, a 93 year old Anglo-Burmese man who joined the Royal Artillery aged just 17 – his Yangon house still proudly covered in Union Jack flags and portraits of the Queen. In near perfect English, he recounted the shock of Japanese aerial bombardment and the horror of his 700-mile evacuation to India by foot, through dense malarial jungles. Or Saw Berny, just one of thousands of local men recruited into S.O.E to conduct incredibly dangerous missions hundreds of miles behind enemy lines.
After the war, Burmese veterans like them became the only Commonwealth veterans to be cut off from official post-war support. The country closed in on itself and slipped into what would become ‘the longest running armed-conflict in the world’.
That's is why we’ve been on a mission to document these phenomenal stories of bravery before it’s too late. Our journey has taken us to the remotest corners of Burma and we’ve met and interviewed the most amazing people along the way – some of whom are sadly no longer with us.
Now we want to share these stories with you. But we need your help.
Read more about the project and support our crowd-funding campaign here: bit.ly/2FbOEBN
Or join us for a special evening in London on June 21st, ‘Remembering World War Two in Burma’ with star speaker James Holland. More information and tickets here: bit.ly/2HP4ojz
Or simply help us spread the word about the project as far and wide as you can. Facebook, tweet, share, reply or simply tell your friends
Thanks,
Luke Radcliff
Researcher,
Grammar Productions
TRAILER:
INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/forgotten-allies-documentary
While British soldiers who served in Burma were known as ‘The Forgotten Army’, local soldiers’ incredible stories were barely even heard of in Britain. They served side by side with British officers, in a brutal war against the Japanese, in extremely difficult conditions.
Like David Daniel, a 93 year old Anglo-Burmese man who joined the Royal Artillery aged just 17 – his Yangon house still proudly covered in Union Jack flags and portraits of the Queen. In near perfect English, he recounted the shock of Japanese aerial bombardment and the horror of his 700-mile evacuation to India by foot, through dense malarial jungles. Or Saw Berny, just one of thousands of local men recruited into S.O.E to conduct incredibly dangerous missions hundreds of miles behind enemy lines.
After the war, Burmese veterans like them became the only Commonwealth veterans to be cut off from official post-war support. The country closed in on itself and slipped into what would become ‘the longest running armed-conflict in the world’.
That's is why we’ve been on a mission to document these phenomenal stories of bravery before it’s too late. Our journey has taken us to the remotest corners of Burma and we’ve met and interviewed the most amazing people along the way – some of whom are sadly no longer with us.
Now we want to share these stories with you. But we need your help.
Read more about the project and support our crowd-funding campaign here: bit.ly/2FbOEBN
Or join us for a special evening in London on June 21st, ‘Remembering World War Two in Burma’ with star speaker James Holland. More information and tickets here: bit.ly/2HP4ojz
Or simply help us spread the word about the project as far and wide as you can. Facebook, tweet, share, reply or simply tell your friends
Thanks,
Luke Radcliff
Researcher,
Grammar Productions
