John Grover (British Army officer)
Major General John Malcolm Lawrence Grover, was a British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Infantry Division in the Burma campaign, including in the Battle of Kohima, during the Second World War.
King George VI (left) with Major General John Grover (right) and several officers at a railway station at Gloucestershire, 1 April 1942.
Lieutenant General Montagu Stopford, GOC XXXIII Indian Corps (right), confers with Major General John Grover, GOC 2nd Division (left) and Brigadier Joseph Salomons, then commanding the 9th Indian Brigade (centre), after the opening of the Imphal-Kohima road, June 1944.
The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of the Japanese U-Go offensive into India in 1944 during the Second World War. The battle took place in three stages from 4 April to 22 June 1944 around the town of Kohima, now the capital city of Nagaland in Northeast India. From 3 to 16 April, the Japanese attempted to capture Kohima ridge, a feature which dominated the road by which the besieged British and Indian troops of IV Corps at Imphal were supplied. By mid-April, the small British and British Indian force at Kohima was relieved.
View of the Garrison Hill battlefield, the key to the British defences at Kohima
Imphal and Kohima campaign
Kohima Ridge
Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army inspect captured Japanese ordnance during the Kohima battle, April 1944