For this first-time visitor, the Naga capital city unfolded like a cold night’s dream offering stories of history, culture, ...
KOHIMA, India—Eighty years after the Imperial Japanese Army lost one of its bloodiest battles in World War II, a cenotaph was dedicated to the Japanese troops who died in the desperate campaign.
Joining the global community, Nagaland observed the Remembrance Day on Monday at the Kohima War Cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio in his address said that the ...
Nagaland observed Remembrance Day on Monday, November 11, at the Kohima War Cemetery, a poignant reminder of the sacrifices made during the Battle of Kohima in 1944. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio ...
It has often been described as "the forgotten war". A British soldier views a road sign on the crucial Imphal to Kohima road in 1944 People in Britain were simply too far away for it to register ...
He left behind his widow Ellen Hannay. Ellen was probably the first war widow to visit the cemetery at Kohima in 1945 and she visited it a further 7 times before she died in 2009. Her nephew ...
The Battle of the Tennis Court was fought 8,000 miles from Wimbledon - at Kohima on an eastern edge of India - when World War Two was in its fifth year. It was a feature of wider battles ...
The British developed Kohima as a watch post for the eastern region. The town has been witness to the bloody World War II battles between the Allies and Japan. The Commonwealth War Cemetery is ...