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====Officers on Campaign====
[[Image:Waziristan 750.jpg|thumb|500px|left|On campaign]]
"Taken at Biche Kashkai during the present ops. Nothing but what we stood up in - not even a cake of soap! 15 days out like this, fighting every day and often during the night."<br />
L to R: Henry Stead, Tom Edwards, Jonah, Reggie Gore, John Woodhouse.
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'''World War IIOfficers on Campaign'''<br />"Taken at Biche Kashkai during the present ops. Nothing but what we stood up in - not even a cake of soap!<br />15 days out like this, fighting every day and often during the night."<br /> [[Image:Waziristan 600.jpg|thumb|650px|left|L to R: Henry Stead, Tom Edwards, Jonah, Reggie Gore, John Woodhouse]] '''World War II'''
After an attachment to the 10/8th, Gore was promoted Lt Col on the outbreak of World War II. He took part with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Indian_Infantry_Division#First_Arakan_Campaign 14th Indian Division] in the first counter offensive into Burma southward from Cox’s Bazaar along the Mayu peninsula in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhine_State Arakan]. It was an ill-fated operation mounted in December 1942 against well-prepared Japanese positions on the most difficult terrain. The Arakan has steep jungle-covered hills rising to 1500 feet, two major rivers, an almost impassable mountain barrier on the eastern side, an unhealthy climate and monsoon rains which make manoeuvring impossible for six months of the year. It was in February after two months fighting, severe losses and failure to break through at Donbaik that Reggie himself was evacuated suffering from amoebic hepatitis.
