Second World War Burma Mention in Despatches certificate awarded to Major (Temporary) N.D. Wise, Devonshire Regiment attached 1st King George V Own Gurkha Rifles who was Menointed in Despacthes in the London Gazette of 19th September 1946 for his services

Second World War Burma Mention in Despatches certificate awarded to Major (Temporary) N.D. Wise, Devonshire Regiment attached 1st King George V Own Gurkha Rifles who was Menointed in Despacthes in the London Gazette of 19th September 1946 for his services in Burma during the Second World War.

Mention in Despatches certificate ‘Major (temp.) N.D. Wise, The Devonshire Regiment’, dated 19th September 1946.

Condition: Good Very Fine

Along with:

Identity Card in India to Captain Norman Douglas Wise, 1st Gurkha Rifles.

Record of Services Officers, Indian Services to Norman Douglas Wise, Devon Regiment attached 1st Battalion, King George V’s Own Gurkha Rifles.

Letter dated 2nd April 1945 from H.Q. 505 District, S.E.A.C. dated 2nd April 1945

Note dated 13th August 1945 to ‘List B’ stating that it was likely that the end of the war with Japan will be announced that day, and the rest of the day in which the announcement was made plus the following day would be celebrated as holidays.

Letter from the War Office dated July 1947 confirming he had been Mentioned in Despatches on 19th September 1946, and giving his home address as 68A Linden Gardens, Chiswick, London W.4.

Letter forwarding a bronze Oak Leaf Emblem.

Race Card at Maymyo Races dated 2nd February 1946 starting Wise was Clerk of the Course.

Telegram dated 15th November 1946.

Norman Douglas Wise was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire on 1st December 1946 and served with the 6th Cavalry Training Regiment at Shorncliff from 26th December 1939 until 27th June 1940, then at the 166th Officer Corps Training Unit at Colchester from 28th June 1940 until 18th October 1940.

He would commissioned as a War Substantive Second Lieutenant with the Devonshire Regiment on 19th October 1940, before being attached to the 1st King George V Own Gurkha Rifles, being promoted Lieutenant on 19th April 1941, Acting Captain on 24th September 1942, War Substantive Captain on 13th October 1943, Acting Major on 14th July 1943, and Acting Lieutenant Colonel on 5th July 1945. He would later be Mentioned in Despatches as a Temporary Major in the London Gazette of 19th September 1946.