British in Burma

[Commander Vyper]

He's in Malaya in 1941, not Burma in 1944.

Shorts or trousers is one of those quibbling details that you just have to figure out whether you care about it or not. Sometimes you want to be a button-counter and get things totally right, other times you just say "bugger it, that's near enough."


There is a photo of the King's African Rifles in Burma in 1945 and they are all in khaki shorts. So some folks on the British side were still in short trousers at least. There are however also photos of them from that time in jungle green long trousers, so there you go...

my grandfather was in Burma and I've loads of photos showing a combination of both the long trousers and shorts in use, though shorts were more in use from the pics I have. Hardly men you see.

[Cubs]

Long trousers were more commonly worn in Burma in the jungle, near swamps or in other areas with high mosquito (and crawling beasties) numbers. Shorts were often worn in the highlands, towns or other dry areas where the risk of bites wasn't so high.

[scrivs]

I used The Assault Group for my 14th Army force and they are lovely figures. As mentioned by many, the shorts on the Perry plastics are not really suitable.

Plenty of shots of my Assault Group 14th Army here: http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Battle%20of%20Meiktila

[Cubs]

I used The Assault Group for my 14th Army force and they are lovely figures.

I must get round to buying some TAG Burma guys. They have a real 'Matchbox' feel to them somehow.