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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Film showing troops of 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment off duty in Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) and a visit by General ...
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. ...
22 reels of footage short by Mark Tully and his sisters in India from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...
Two months after the end of the Battle of Kohima a memorial is unveiled by Lieutenant-General Stopford commander ...
United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop ...
Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...
Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...
Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes ...
Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The ...
The horse race.
Horse racing in Calcutta.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
Not long after the liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, ...
INTEREST. Scenes of life and customs in Calcutta and Bombay.
A busy street in Calcutta filmed from the top of a ...
Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.
Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning ...
Viscount Wavell and Lady Wavell visit an RAF airfield.
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft with Union flag flying from the ...
Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of ...
Lieutenant-General F A M Browning, Chief of Staff of South East Asia Command, visits positions held by the ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, visits the officers and men who helped ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.
An ...
Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and ...
Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari ...
Reel 1: Two airwomen sunbathing in a garden. Two women in civilian clothes sitting on a gate. A woman mounts ...