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CHINTHE
WOMEN Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) 1942-46 |
Introduction
- Char and Wads
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Introduction
This web page is about "Chinthe Women", a publication which contains contemporary reminiscences, photographs and diaries about an unusual band of women, who worked alongside troops close to the frontline during the Burma Campaign of World War Two. They ran mobile canteens for all the troops in the "Forgotten Army". The 250 members of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), WAS(B), also tended the starving British POWs as they were rescued from building the Burma Railway. |
CHINTHE
WOMEN was researched and published by
Sally and Lucy Jaffe, daughter and granddaughter of Commandant Nin Taylor,
who formed and led the WAS(B). She was awarded an OBE for her contribution
to the war.
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