Scenes at an Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop of 123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division, and views of bomb damage and terrain on the Tiddim Road, Burma.

At a field workshop mechanics are at work on various pieces of equipment. At Tiddim village many buildings have been damaged by bombing and shellfire. A dead Japanese soldier covered in flies. A simple sign marks the grave of No. 20687, Sepoy Ibrahim Khan of 2nd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment and gives his home village as Mota Jand, Mirpur (in Kashmir) and his date of death, in action, as 2 November 1944. Bomb or shell craters. An entrance to a Japanese bunker with more Japanese dead. The view, seen from an artillery Observation Post commanded by Captain C D Clare of Burnage, Manchester, on the 8871-foot Kennedy Peak. The padre of 9th Brigade, Reverend W B Moffet (formerly of Akyab, Burma) points out features of the terrain to Captain R W Livingstone, Medical Officer of 28th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Notes

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) records a Sepoy Ibrahim, No. 20687, date of death 2 November 1944 (aged 26) of Mota Jand, Mirpur, as being commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial in Taukkyan War Cemetery. However, the CWGC details his unit as 3rd Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment.

The dopesheet names the following individuals as appearing in the workshop sequence, although it is not entirely clear which is which:

Captain J Thompson, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, of Lower Broughton, Salford.

Staff Sergeant R S Wallace of Romford, Essex.

A N Webb of Darlington.

Staff Sergeant J D Ruddock of South Harrow, London.

Staff Sergeant Homewood of Welling, Kent.