Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The Kohima Educational Trust is delighted to present this webinar with Dr Robert Lyman MBE who introduces our guest speaker Lucy Betteridge-Dyson. Lucy is a military and animal historian, author and PhD candidate at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London.
Following the Battles of Kohima and Imphal, the tide was turning against the Imperial Japanese Army. In November 1944, the British Fourteenth Army embarked on a dramatic advance that would lead to the re-conquest of Burma. Yet this famous victory would not have been possible without another offensive taking place along the western coast in Arakan, where XV Corps and 3 Commando Brigade were tasked with trapping and destroying the Japanese 28th Army.
In a series of daring combined operations and deep-penetration missions into the Burmese jungle, Royal Marine and Army Commandos – alongside the men of the 25 and 26 Indian Infantry and the 81 and 82 (West African) Divisions – inflicted a devastating defeat on an enemy once thought unbeatable.
In this talk Lucy will give an overview of the daring tactics, multinational cooperation, and overlooked battles of the Third Arakan Campaign, the logistical lynchpin of the reconquest of Burma.
The Kohima Educational Trust is delighted to present this webinar with Dr Robert Lyman MBE who introduces our guest speaker Lucy Betteridge-Dyson. Lucy is a military and animal historian, author and PhD candidate at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London.
Following the Battles of Kohima and Imphal, the tide was turning against the Imperial Japanese Army. In November 1944, the British Fourteenth Army embarked on a dramatic advance that would lead to the re-conquest of Burma. Yet this famous victory would not have been possible without another offensive taking place along the western coast in Arakan, where XV Corps and 3 Commando Brigade were tasked with trapping and destroying the Japanese 28th Army.
In a series of daring combined operations and deep-penetration missions into the Burmese jungle, Royal Marine and Army Commandos – alongside the men of the 25 and 26 Indian Infantry and the 81 and 82 (West African) Divisions – inflicted a devastating defeat on an enemy once thought unbeatable.
In this talk Lucy will give an overview of the daring tactics, multinational cooperation, and overlooked battles of the Third Arakan Campaign, the logistical lynchpin of the reconquest of Burma.
