Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon, Burma.

Lawson disemplaning from an RAF Douglas Dakota transport KN386. He is received by Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford (commander 12th Army), Major-General George Symes (commander South Burma District), Air Vice Marshal Cecil Bouchier (commander 221 Group RAF) and Brigadier Louis Woodhouse (commander No.1 Area (Rangoon)). Walking away from plane. Lawson speaking with members of an RAF guard of honour. Alternative angles of the above.

Notes

1945 saw Clement Attlee's Labour Party withdraw from the wartime coalition government, prompting a General Election which they won in a spectacular landslide. Jack Lawson, MP for Chester-le-Street, was appointed Secretary of State for War and was tasked with demobilising Britain's large and far-flung armed forces. In doing so he completed a 35,000 mile round trip of India and the Far East, hosting sixty mass meetings such as the one seen in this film. The demobilisation of troops in the Far East was particularly pressing as many had been overseas without home leave for years.