Battle of Imphal

Letter of recognition from Colonel The Viscount Slim, President, Burma Star Association, UK

Certificate of Merit and Friendship Badge from the Burma Star Association, UK.

The Burma Star Association, UK

In October 2015, the Burma Star Association awarded a Certificate of Merit and Friendship Badge to Hemant Singh Katoch, founder of the Battle of Imphal Tours, for pioneering battlefield tours around Imphal and Kohima. The letter of commendation (displayed above) containing news about this recognition was from Colonel The Viscount Slim, President of the Burma Star Association and son of the late-Field Marshal William J. Slim, who had commanded the British Fourteenth Army to victory at Imphal and Kohima in 1944.