Geoffry Scoones
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General Sir Geoffry Allen Percival Scoones, was a senior officer in the Indian Army during the Second World War.
Scoones in September 1944
Major Fitzroy Maurice Favre Scoones (third from left) during 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers training at Tucker's Town, Bermuda, in 1904
General William Slim, General Officer Commanding 14th Army arrives at Imphal airstrip and chats to Air Commodore Stanley Vincent, Air Officer Commanding 221 Group RAF and Lieutenant-General Scoones, General Officer Commanding IV Indian Corps, before meeting American generals.
Battle of Imphal
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The Battle of Imphal, also known as the "Stalingrad of the East" in combination with Kohima, took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in Northeast India
Geoffry Scoones
…jungle-covered frontier. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1942. Scoones commanded the corps through the gruelling Battle of Imphal. In December 1944 he and his fellow corps commanders Montagu Stopford and Philip Christison were knighted and invested as Knights Commander of the Order…
Gurkhas advancing with Grant tanks to clear the Japanese from Imphal-Kohima road in North Eastern British India
Lt. Gen. Renya Mutaguchi, commanding Fifteenth Army
Lieutenant General William Slim, commanding Fourteenth Army