The final stages of the Burma retreat

20th May 1942: As the Monsoon breaks the longest retreat in British history ends as the marchers reach India

A British medical officer tries to bring some order to the chaotic situation in an improvised field hospital during the long retreat from Burma to India in 1942. These men are on the veranda of a government building in the town of Pyinmana, which was on the escape route for the Chinese Nationalist troops. Dr Seagrave set up this emergency dressing stati…