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Highlights of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's visit to Hong Kong in 1975 Highlights of Queen Elizabeth II and ...
After the victory at Tamu, Burma, troops of 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders retire to a rest ...
Unedited news film of the Queens Lancashire Regiment on security duties in Aden in September 1967 during the anti-British Insurgency ...
Recruiting film for Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), based around an interview for an officer's commission.
Colonel ...
Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
"The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The ...
RAF 132 Squadron and 7155 Servicing Echelon arrive in Hong Kong onboard the Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Smiter.
Members ...
Scenes of Bristol Beaufighter Mk X's of RAF 27 Squadron operating from Chiringa airfield, India.
View of runway with ...
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft, operating from Chandina, seen resupplying troops with food and ammunition at Murdoch and Taung ...
Supplies are packed for parachute drops from RAF transport aircraft, with aerial footage of Rangoon, Burma.
Aerial footage showing ...
Indians and Britons compete at an inter-Service athletics meeting, hosted by the RAF at Charbatia, north of Cuttack, ...
Scenes of RAF airmen preparing for a Bristol Beaufighter sortie over Burma.
Airborne footage of flight over coastal areas ...
After monsoon weather washes away an RAF church five days before a special Thanksgiving Service, a new church ...
The RAF demonstrates close support techniques in cooperation with a British armoured unit.
Wide shot of an open plain ...
RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft fly liberated Allied prisoners of war (POWs) to Rangoon, Burma, from Don Muang ...
More footage relating to an Gang Show organised by an RAF Welfare Unit on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma.
Chevrolet ...
Scenes from an RAF Gang Show performance on Akyab Island (now Sittwe, Burma).
Two Chevrolet 1.5-ton lorries drive past ...
Footage of RAF Hawker Hurricane pilots preparing for an attack on Japanese positions on the Imphal front, India.
Aerial ...
Reel 1: Men gathered around sketch map. Close-up with finger pointing out various locations. A Burmese instructor in front of ...
RAF personnel leave Rangoon, Burma, by ship for leave, postings, and repatriation.
Rangoon harbour; a temporary bridge leads to ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas ...
Several British planes carry out dive bombing attacks in the distance and smoke is seen rising from the area.
Notes
Mandalay, Burma's ...
Ballot papers are delivered by air to Calcutta, India, for distribution to RAF bases before the 1945 General ...
Men of the RAF Regiment man gun positions on troopships in the Rangoon River before sailing for Singapore.
RAF ...
Men of an RAF Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron make an amphibious landing at Rangoon, Burma.
Group Captain Harold Pleasance, ...
The reopening of the Kowloon-Lo Wu railway line gets off to a decidedly mixed start, and RAF men ...
An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber near Sagaing, Burma.
A jeep and a ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry ...
Scenes of RAF anti-mosquito operations around Imphal, India.
Three Hawker Hurricanes overhead spraying kerosene and DDT. Shot of two ...
Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...
In order to get the railways of Burma in working condition a company of Indian Engineers salvages rolling ...
Lieutenant-General W J Slim leads a flag unfurling ceremony at inside Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, after British troops ...
Drama-documentary about a Methodist mission founded in 1816 in Colombo, which helps young tea-plantation workers to learn new skills.
Reel One.
Scenes ...
An experimental Type B Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) is assembled and launched, with some difficulty, on the River ...
Scenes of airfield preparation, fighter and RAF Regiment operations and airfield life on Ramree Island, Burma.
Panning shots of ...
Amateur film showing Sir Hugh Stephenson, local scenes in Patna and Ranchi districts of India. Scenes include; seeing the Governor, ...
Japanese General Heitaro Kimura and senior staff officers surrender their swords at the headquarters of Twelfth Army at ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Indian other ranks (IORs) of 60 Indian Workshop Company of the Indian Electrical ...
Amateur film. Manipuri sword dance; old maharajah's palace; Bone ceremony; Rathjatra procession.
Rear Admiral C H J Harcourt, Senior British Naval Officer Hong Kong, inspects airmen and aircraft of RAF ...
British engineers and infantry of 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (29th Brigade, 36th Division) seen at work on ...
Harvesting and canning of pineapples in Singapore.
Chinese locals work in the pineapple fields. A man, shot from below, cuts the ...
Airmen enjoy some time on leave in Bombay (Mumbai), India, while awaiting embarkation for return to the United ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...
Harbour of Akyab Island, Burma, with Merchant Marine ships anchored offshore and the unloading of supplies to landing ...
Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees are liberated from Japanese captivity and evacuated by RAF aircraft ...
Former Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently released from Japanese captivity, arrive in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) en ...
Internees climbing a gangway to board HMS Sussex. Reverse angle showing same. Civilian ex-internees (on the flag deck?) with a ...