Governor’s Lecture Series: The Battle of the Tennis Court

About the event

Join us for a powerful and insightful lecture on one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War. Bob Cook, Curator of the Kohima Museum, will explore the dramatic events of the Battle of the Tennis Court, a pivotal engagement within the wider Battle of Kohima.

Often described as one of the most important battles of the entire war, Kohima marked the furthest point of the Japanese advance into India. Until this moment, Japanese forces had rarely been defeated—after Kohima, they were never victorious again. The fighting on the small, improvised tennis court at the Deputy Commissioner’s bungalow became one of the most intense and symbolically significant clashes of the Burma Campaign.