Messages home from British Forces stationed in India

Messages home from British Forces stationed in India

Srinagar, Spring 1946

Srinagar, 1946

AMATEUR. Amateur footage of Delhi - street scenes; Viceroy's house; mosque; Delhi Junction station, etc..

Lakes. Monument. Fountain. Archway. Kingsway with ...

Film opens with captions detailing the history of, and current work of, the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU). "1914-1918 Ambulance trains ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan ...

Amateur film of the spring festival at Udaipur. Views of the Residency and its garden. Poeple dressed in their best ...

Political and social life in India.

Credits. Crowd of Indians. Commentary states that among the contradictions of India a new ...

I. "FIGHTING FOURTH WELCOMED HOME". At Karachi, Fourth Division return home after over six years of active service in the ...

I. "THE CABINET MISSION ARRIVES IN INDIA". The Cabinet Mission arrive to try and break the political deadlock in India. ...

I. "DEWAS SENIOR CELEBRATES VICTORY ON RULER'S VICTORY" Maharajah of Dewas presides at his own Durbar accompanied by the nobles ...

Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above ...

In Hong Kong, British and Indian troops of the so-called 'Brindjap' force, bound for the occupation of Japan, ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

Mountbatten ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

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Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is ...

Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.

Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...

Shot on 23 October 1945: view of Rempang Island from the sea. View of the Japanese naval HQ ship, the ...

Confronted by a blown bridge on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma, tanks and motor vehicles of ...

Reel 1: RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers overhead. Lee medium tanks driving along a dusty road. A Lee passes with infantry ...

At a Traffic Control Post on the River Irrawaddy material is organised for ferry crossings to support a ...

25-pounder field guns of 18th Indian Field Battery, 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, are seen shelling the ...