14th Army

[AnnieP]

I've found an obituary for the soldier I'm researching part of which says" On the invasion of Burma by the Japanese in the Second World War he was posted as liaison officer to the 5th C.E.F., Burma, early in 1942. After the evacuation he served with the 14th Army, C.A.S.(B.) until the end of the war. he retired from the Army with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel."
I would like to know what the CAS(B) could mean? I thought initially that it might be 'Combat Service Support' as he was then about 50 years of age and part of the IARO so not of fighting age. He was also an interpreter having been in India and Burma since the early 1920s in the Indian Forest Service.

[ShaunJ]

Civil Affairs Service (Burma)

See http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/BIC.htm

[AnnieP]

Thank you so much. Having read the item you indicated this fits in well with all I know about him in my research.
Again many thanks
AnnieP