At the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the commander of Japanese 29th Army (Lieutenant-General Ishiguro) surrenders to the commander of XXXIV Indian Corps (Lieutenant-General Roberts) and a march past of troops marks the occasion.

A Union flag flying in front of the main building of the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur. Closer shot of the flag. A civilian car arrives flying a white flag and marked with 'surrender crosses'. Japanese officers go inside. British cars arrive; an officer goes inside. Indian troops of 2nd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment at the 'present arms'. They are inspected by Lieutenant-General Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, commander of XXXIV Indian Corps. A pennant on a staff car shows a leaping jaguar, the insignia of XXXIV Corps. Interior Victoria Institution; the British delegation enters and takes their seats. The British signing party consists of Captain E T Cooper, Royal Navy, Lieutenant-General Roberts and Air Vice Marshal the Earl of Bandon. The Japanese party enters; it consists of Lieutenant-General Teizo Ishiguro (commander 29th Army, Malaya) and Major-General Naoichi Kawahara (Chief of Staff) and Colonel Oguri (staff officer) as witnesses. The surrender is signed by both parties and Ishiguro applies his seal. The Japanese party departs. Japanese soldiers clearing rubbish in front of the Victoria Institution. Union flag flying outside the Instituion; pan down to General Roberts on a saluting base for a march past. A unit of sailors and marines pass. Roberts saluting. Twenty-five pounder field guns are towed past behind tractors. Men of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and the Special Operations Executive's Force 136 formed up opposite the saluting base. Close-up of a Malay (?) man with the phoenix patch of the Supreme Allied Commander and two stars on his collar. A group of children from a local convent school cheering. A jeep heads a column with an officer saluting. Indian soldiers march towards and past camera; the cameraman is crouched between the ranks of troops as they pass. An Indian soldier passes; he wears the 'ace of spades' insignia of 25th Indian Division and a 'Baluch' shoulder title (therefore either 14th or 16th Battalion, 10th Baluch Regiment). Out of focus footage of troops passing a bust, probably of the King. More troops pass. A number of pipers lead a unit of Gurkhas, possibly 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles. Unit of MPAJA pass headed by a colour party with a Union flag and their own flag. A Sherman medium tank passes. The crowd disperses after the march past. The crowd seen from a moving jeep.

Notes

The Japanese had surrendered throughout South East Asia on the previous day at Singapore and so this ceremony was something of a formality.

The Victoria Institution is an English boys school in Kuala Lumpur and was opened in 1893. It currently has a student body of around 1200 and during the war was the site firstly of a Japanese administrative centre, later the surrender seen in this film, and finally (with the building being used as HQ Malaya Command) a ceremonial surrender of swords by Japanese officers in February 1946. See related items.

The MPAJA was a mostly ethnic Chinese resistance group which, originating from men of the Malayan Communist Party, mounted a continuous low-level insurgency against the Japanese occupation from camps deep in the jungle. They were assisted by personnel of the Special Operations Executive's Force 136. Some of the MPAJA would reform as the Malayan National Liberation Army and fight in the Malayan Emergency from 1948-1960.