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British television news report interviews Major Vivian Robinson of Second Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles, presently countering Indonesians crossing into Borneo, ...
Sherman tanks and troops from the 1st Battalion the Burma Regiment proceeding up beach for an attack on ...
7th Indian Division of IV Corps prepare to set up a beachhead across the Irrawaddy River, to coincide ...
7th Gurkha Rifles on parade, patrolling frontier with China, extended interview with bespectacled British officer, assault training, Tavolero Barracks, Gurkhas ...
Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles on the Kojak Pass and Afghan Frontier near Chaman, officers and wives competing ...
At the RAF's 81 Mobile Field Hospital, operating at Seletar in Singapore, both British servicemen and Japanese prisoners ...
Troops from 82nd West African Division arrive at Ru-Ywa, Burma, by boat and are met by Major-General Stockwell ...
82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Harry Porter of the 8th (Belfast) HAA Regiment Royal Artillery gives detailed record of military ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of local life in Colombo, Gordon ...
RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.
Landscape view of Kai ...
Life in the Indian Army Unit shown is possibly the 15th Punjab Regiment).
The day begins with reveill and ...
Film showing the resettlement of Chinese squatters from the edge of the Malayan jungle, away from the Communist ...
A general recruiting film for the services which "will all be regulars by the end of 1962".
Opening scenes ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Ethiopia and Addis Ababa at the time of Haile Selassie's coronation, November 1930.
"Leaving Aden". Shots ...
How the Govt. of Singapore has set about the gigantic problem of housing Hong ko ng's swelling population.
The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.
Air Marshal Garrod, acting Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits RAF squadrons at forward airstrips at Tabingaung and Onbauk, Burma.
Air ...
The violence against the British presence in Aden and the future of the South Arabian Federation. Llew Gardner spoke to ...
The history of Aden and its importance now as a port and oil refinery. Intended for secondary schools.
TV Coverage of Aden. Prefer to be British? Shots of Ports and Ships.
TV coverage of Aden in 1959.
Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound ...
Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port ...
Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and infrastructure ...
Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as ...
A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.
Low altitude (c.100-ft) ...
An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, ...
ACTUALITY. A British official opens the Agriculture and Health Exhibition in Bengal, 1933. The opening ceremony and crowds.
Bengali titles (6). ...
Amateur film of the construction of a road in Assam from Ledo to Assam by the Indian Tea Association.
Pan over ...
Artillery and air strikes are used to assist an attack by 17th Indian Division on Japanese held positions ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command and Air Commodore the ...
Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong.
A bare-metal RAF ...
Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
At ...
Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a ...
Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron ...
The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives with his ...
Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the ...
Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.
Men of Air ...
Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.
Aircraft ...
Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food ...
Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.
RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at ...
Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.
An RAF Avro ...
Gurkha paratroopers seen gearing up and boarding their aircraft before parachuting into action near Rangoon, Burma, as part ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, ...