Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.

At a dressing station men of 154th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, provide medical services to local Burmese civilians. A civilian has his foot bandaged. A mother and baby; a British medic probes the baby's mouth with a swab as the infant has been suffering from ulcers as a result of malnutrition. A powder is applied to a man's leg (antiseptic?). A man with a bandaged foot is carried on a litter by two others. Tent with medic at work. British stretcher bearers carrying a casualty. A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) light aeroplane. A British man, with a dressing on his face, is lifted down a flight of steps on a stretcher. A parked USAAF light aircraft with a number of men around it; a sign reads 'Airstrip 10mph'. Wounded man on a stretcher. Aircraft taking off. Aircraft in flight. A train passes across shot; one carriage is marked with the insignia of 36th Division (two overlapping rings) and named 'Whitehorse Inn'. A man, lying on a stretcher in the back of a light aircraft, looks briefly at the camera. The propeller is swung several times. The aircraft taxis away. An ambulance (Fordson?) marked 'United States Army' passes camera. A stretcher case is put aboard an aircraft. View down an airstrip with an aircraft in the distance approaching camera. Indian Engineers maintaining the strip with hand tools. Local labourers on the airstrip.

Notes

One individual is named on the dopesheet, a Private Latimer of Carlisle, presumably of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

According to a dopesheet annotation by the censor the footage of the train was to be cut from any copy of this film released for publication. Likely therefore that the operation of this railway, or the identity of 36th Division, was considered operationally sensitive.

For film of troops of 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment in action at Mohnyin, see related items.