I have a great-uncle who was a mountain warefare artilleryman in WW2 in the Khyber pass area. He is just learning technology and is in ill health, but I could pass along a couple questions. He has retained a strong interest in the military and has written on Afghanistan.

My grandfather was in the artillery during WW2 and was in Burma. He was in Calcutta, Chittagong, Coxs BAzarr, Arkhan, Kohima. I too am trying to find his unit, and who they were attached to. Have you have any joy? He was Fred Langston (gunner)

The British official histories will have some detail about the British and Indian divisions in Burma in WWII. At the beginning of that war, about every third battalion in an Indian Army division was British. There would've been one artillery battalion ("regiment" may have been word used) in each brigade and three brigades per division. British Army divisions were of course all British.

Some of these posts date back a while, but for anyone still interested. I did quite a bit of research on the 14th Army in India/Burma some time back. I don't have much info on this specificaly but here is what I know (this is not necessarily comprehensive): 14th Army artillery 18th (self-propelled) Field Regiment, RA 134th Medium Regiment, RA 52nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA 69th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA 2nd Indian Field Regiment, IA 2nd Indian Light Anti-aircraft Regiment, IA 5th Mahratta anti-tank regiment, IA 656th Air Op Squadron, RAF IVth Corps artillery 8th Medium Regiment, RA 1st Indian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, IA 67th Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, IA 1st Survey regiment, RA XXXIIIrd Corps artillery 10th Regiment, RA 16th Regiment, RA 99th Regiment, RA 100th Light Regiment, RA This should give people somewhere to start looking. From my own experience the next move would be to check out the British Library. Head down there with some ID and you will be given an interview where you have to explain what you are researching. It's a bit of a hassle, but the staff are excellent, and the library holds the largest collection of books and documents in the world.

If you are looking for a particular person, rather than the history, and you believe he was artillery, be aware that as the war progressed, many men were re-roled into other arms. My 86 yr old neighbour was heavy AA in England until the blitz died down, then was packed off with the Chindits as an infantry 'replacement unit' filler - until he got hospitalized back.

I'm seeking any information on 19 Field Battery 9 Field Regiment which served as part of 39 or 20 Indian div during WW2 in Burma.

Have a look at this site, http://members.tripod.com/~nigelef/index.htm it includes lists of all field arty units and where and when and formation. 9 Fd Regt seems to have been a standard regt, so all its btys would have had 8 25-pdrs. Re the original question, there's no sign of any RA being in Nepal.