Recently liberated Allied prisoners of war and internees are shown around the Royal Navy London Class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex, and seen in hospital.

Interior hospital ward with a nurse sitting with a patient. Closer shot of the patient. Series of shots showing patients and nurses listening to a gramophone. Men dismount from a lorry on the dockside with HMS Sussex in the background. Wide shot with people going onboard. A blackboard reads: 'Prisoners of war may come onboard the ship between the hours of 4pm and 7pm./There is a cinema show to-night at 19:30 in the shed' (see note). Internees coming up gangway stairs. Internees stepping aboard. Wide shot of Sussex.

Notes

HMS Sussex was the flagship of Rear Admiral Cedric Holland and had been the site of the Japanese surrender of the Singapore garrison on 4 September 1945.

For details of the 'cinema show', see JFU 331.

Additional coverage by Sergeant Hewit. See related items.