TWENTY THIRD INDIAN DIVISION “The Fighting Cock Division” Burma, Malaya, Java

The Fighting Cock Division is well recorded in the book by Doulton. This book gives coverage of the heavy fighting at Kohima Battle, the capture of Tamu, the reoccupation of Malaya in August 1945, and then its strange role on the island of Java – concurrently disarming the Japanese garrison, fighting the insurgent Indonesian nationalists, and caring for 65000 former internees pending the arrival of an new Dutch administration.