Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.

Walking cases get into civilian cars for transport to Singapore docks. Three walking cases pass camera and get into a car; they are received by a British captain (medical officer?). Four men walk towards camera. A man is helped into a car. A man walking with the aid of a stick. A man on a stretcher, apparently in good spirits; he shakes hands with another man before he is loaded into the back of an ambulance. A man is carried piggyback. Cars and lorries (with men waving) along a road outside the walls of Changi jail. Cars parked on the dockyard; a hospital ship is berthed. Men walk into a shed. Men dismount from a lorry. Walking cases board the ship by gangway. Stretcher cases are carried aboard. Hospital ship in the distance. View of the dockside along the side of the ship. Stretcher cases carried past camera. Ambulance drives slowly along the dockside with naval ratings following behind. British women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) give cups of tea to casualties lying on stretchers on a parked jeep ambulance. Stretcher cases are carried up a gangway.

Notes

According to the official history, by the end of September South East Asia Command had evacuated 53,700 prisoners of war and internees, rising to 71,000 by the end of October and 96,575 by May 1946. The majority of these were evacuated by sea from Singapore, as seen in this film.

The hospital ship is possibly HMHS Amarapoora, but this is speculative.

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