General Sir Montagu George North Stopford, was a senior British Army officer who fought during both the First and Second World Wars. The latter he served in with distinction, commanding XXXIII Indian
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A half-length, seated portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford in uniform.
Lieutenant General Montagu Stopford, GOC XXXIII Indian Corps (right), confers with Major General John Grover, GOC 2nd Division (left) and Brigadier Joseph Salomons, commanding the 9th Indian Brigade (centre), after the opening of the Imphal-Kohima road, June 1944.
Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford, GOC-in-C of the British 12th Army, inspects a guard of honour mounted by men of the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, during the formal ceremony in Rangoon where General Heitarō Kimura and his staff handed over their swords to staff officers of the 12th Army.
South East Asia Command was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during the Second World War. The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia was t
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…too few resources available for such an operation. As a result, Churchill considered Admiral Louis Mountbatten, the new Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), could instead plan to capture the Andaman Islands (Operation Buccaneer). In December the Allied leaders returned to Cairo, both Mountbatten and…
Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command from October 1943 through the disbandment of SEAC in 1946. This photograph, taken in February 1944, is from his tour of the Arakan front, as part of the Burma Campaign
General Joseph Stilwell (right), First Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command, together with General Frank Merrill, in Burma during the Burma Campaign.