JS50 Capture of Mandalay signed Gurkha Captain

Cover produced for the 50th Anniversary of the Capture of Mandalay. Cover depicts Mitchells bombing Fort Dufferin on 19 March. RAF Dakotas dropping supplies to troops near Pagoda hill and Gurkha troops of 19th Indian Dagger Division on their way to Mandalay.
Cover bears Welsh defin which was been cancelled with BFPS 2445 for the 50th Anniversary of the Capture of Mandalay.
Cover has been flown in a Hercules of 47 Squadron from RAF Lyneham on a flight around the world to Cairo, Colombo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Yokota, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Washington DC and then back to Lyneham.
Cover has been signed by Major Vernon Page Sams JP MA who was Captain V P Sams of the 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha rifles and saw action during the liberation of Mandalay.

The Japanese rected ferociously in attemps to rectify the desperate situation in the Irrawaddy region. Heavy counterattacks against IV Corps begane on 5th March and the small town of Taungtha was taken. The 17th Indian Division was almost cut off in Meirtila but with complete air superiority the Allies were easily able to resupply by air and at the same time bombard the Japanese at will. The British 2ns and 20th Indian Divisions began to break out of their brigdgeheads to the west of Mandalay on 8th March 1945 and by the next day the 19th Indian Division reached the outskirks of Mandalay and other corps were approaching from the west. The fighting around Meiktila was still very fierce as the Japanese made desperate attemps to regain their communications.
Mongmit was captured on 11th March by a pincer movement of two brigades of the British 36th Division. Myoths southwest of Mandalay was captured by the 20th Indian Division on 13th March and the next day the 62nd Indian Brigade took Maymo to the east of Mandalay thereby cutting the last railway link to the city. The 19th Indian Division were fighting street by street and had captured much of Mandalay by the 14th. The Japanese increased their efforts against Meiktila but got nowhere. The British 2nd Division took Ava on the 18th March only a few miles south of Mandalay. Mogok fell to the British on the 19th, the next day the 19th Indian Division completed the capture of Mandalay

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