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In Kuantan, Malaya, the Chinese community celebrates the Double Tenth festival for the first time since the Japanese ...
Following the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron, delivering rice to the people ...
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram ...
Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.
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Visit by Lady Limerick to BRC, , Penang, Malaya 1953.
Shot of Union flag; outside gathering: chairs lined up/women in RC ...
Air Chief Commandant Lady R M E Welsh, Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ('the WAAFs') visits ...
Amateur film, taken in Lahore, showing prayers in the Badashahi mosque and a view of the fort and a Sikh ...
Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.
Hong Kong 1997. A man returns to his place of birth to find work but, unable to find a job, ...
Travelogue.
Travelogue of Burma showing Buddhist sites in Rangoon and Mandalay and a look at Burmese life. Includes a teak sawmill ...
Film showing Sarawak, the youngest colony of the British Commonwealth.
The film indicates that a hundred years ago Sarawak ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Hewit: View looking down on a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) with Indian troops aboard. ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Sanders: View from a landing craft with the Singapore skyline on the horizon and Landing ...
Men of 5th Maratha (Mahratta) Regiment reinforce landing sites around Setkhaw, Burma, which were taken during the night ...
British troops of 3rd Special Service Brigade land unopposed on a beach on Akyab Island (Sittwe), in the ...
Two-part documentary about the life and work of Jackie Pullinger, who works among Triads addicted to heroin in Hong Kong's ...
Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.
Production ...
Signallers of the 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment lay a line across the Shweli River, Burma from Battalion ...
Tanks are needed north of Tamandu, Burma, so the Royal Indian Navy transports them along the nearest river ...
Views of a troopship convoy to Singapore, crowds lining the streets, and Allied prisoners liberated from Changi prison ...
Indian troops of 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment (33rd Brigade, 7th Indian Division) reoccupy the oil town of ...
Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 355 Squadron attack Japanese targets near Natkyigon, Burma
Operating from Salbani airfield, in ...
While visiting XV Corps area Lieutenant-General M B Burrows flies in to inspect 82nd West African Division on ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye (Vice Chief Imperial General Staff) pays a short visit to 82nd West African Division ...
Wide shot showing Lieutenant-General Roberts' staff car arriving outside the Suleiman Building in Kuala Lumpur. He meets the officer commanding. ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford, commander of XXXIII Corps, is entertained by the people of Tamu, Burma, following their ...
Lieutenant-General Leese and several other officers visit 17th Indian Division at Meiktila, tour the positions of the Royal ...
Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA) visits the gunners of XV Indian ...
The commander of 14th Army, Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, launches two warships on the River Chindwin at Kalewa, ...
Lieutenant-General William Slim, commander of 14th Army, arrives at Meiktila, Burma, and holds a conference with other senior ...
ACTUALITY. Wildlife at the foot of the Himalayas in northern India.
Forest, mountain range in background (9). A black bear walking ...
Reel 1: Model of India, filmed at low angle with crawl of text; RAF Film Production Unit presents Life in ...
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Reel 1: A carpenter at work among palm trees. An armourer carries a Browning machine gun. Close-up of carpenter. Close-up ...
Domestic scenes of life on an RAF camp in a forward area in Burma
A thatched wooden building fiercely ...
Domestic scenes of life on an RAF camp in Burma.
A thatched wooden building fiercely ablaze. An airman does ...
Story of three comrades in arms in the wars of the North-West Frontier in 18th century India.
During a lull in fighting in the Maungdaw area of Arakan, Burma, British troops of 25th Indian Division ...
Depicts medical work of the London Missionary Society at Jianganj, specifically at the new hospital built by the Society to ...
Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
Dakota aircraft ...
A line of Burmese labourers queue up to receive their payment of money (1 rupee, about 1 shilling sixpence at ...