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I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
On Ramree Island off the Arakan coast of Burma, local civilians welcome British troops, who go sightseeing with ...
Scenes from the Army Exhibition in Nairobi in September 1944. The film depicts African and European schoolboys inspecting ...
Footage showing the feeding of the poor as part of the Buddhist Festival of Lights in Rangoon, shortly ...
Indian troops of 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment (33rd Brigade, 7th Indian Division) reoccupy the oil town of ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. ...
In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look ...
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
(Reel One) The morning of the invasion (the troops had landed before 5.30 am), angry Anguillans surround the office of ...
Shot on 7 October 1945: footage from a landing craft approaching the shore showing two Landing Craft Assaults (LCAs) and ...
I. Sequence showing Kowloon power station, and lines of coolie women carrying logs to the operative boiler. HA.LS onto a ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are ...
Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African ...