'Fight to the Last Man'

28th March 1943: As the Japanese finally enter India the Assam Regiment of the Indian Army mounts a heroic defence, surrounded in an outpost at Jessami

An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment about to go on patrol on the Arakan front, Burma. Contemporary images of the Assam Regiment are hard to find, although it is now an important part of the modern Indian Army