Meanwhile, the main body of the division, with the East African 22nd Brigade under command, advanced south from Tamandu.

During World War II the Japanese maintained a strategic supply base at Tamandu.

By March, the division captured Dalet Chaung and the strategic supply base of Tamandu, in coordination with Indian units.

His regiment gained the battle honour "Tamandu" as a result of the engagement and he received his Victoria Cross from King George VI at Buckingham Palace.

Some of those killed were buried in jungle tracts, but many Nigerian graves remain in cemeteries at the Dalet Chaung near Tamandu and the Taukkyan War Cemetery.

The Tamandu Barracks in Lagos, Nigeria and Tamandu Road in Kano, Nigeria were named after the village.

Vere Tweedie who served in the Gold Coast Regiment of Royal West African Frontier Force awarded MC in 1945 during an action behind Japanese lines on the Tamandu to An road in the Arakan Burma.