REPATRIATION OF INTERNEES FROM STANLEY CAMP, HONG KONG (18/9/1945)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: JFU 368).

Synopsis

The first batch of freed civilian internees leave Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, and are evacuated by the Royal Australian Navy Bathurst Class corvette HMAS Strahan.

Allied flags flying. Group of internees posing in front of the flags. Three children, two girls and a younger boy, by a flag pole. Internees receiving passage tickets. Reverse angle; a smiling woman is given her ticket. Close-up of a passage ticket which reads 'Passenger Card/Ship: Glengyle/Name: Clark J/ Berth: Troop Deck'. Two angles of luggage being loaded onto a lorry. Shot of Graham Cochran, a toddler born in Stanley Camp. Shot of Elizabeth Fife, also born in the camp, with bandages on her legs (possibly from malnutrition-related skin problems). Civilians on the back of an open lorry wave as the lorry drives off. People board a small boat and are helped in by sailors. Boat motoring away. View from a boat with another under tow behind. Internees climb out of the boat to board HMAS Strahan; the camera follows a woman as she comes aboard. View of Strahan (pennant J363) as the cameraman's boat passes across the bow.

Notes

The reference to 'Glengyle' is HMS Glengyle, a Landing Ship Infantry (Large) which carried 3 Commando Brigade to Hong Kong. See JFU 369.

 

Titles

  • REPATRIATION OF INTERNEES FROM STANLEY CAMP, HONG KONG (18/9/1945) (Allocated)
Series Title:
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
4 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
336 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
War Office Directorate of Public Relations
Production company
SEAC Film Unit
Sergeant; cameraman.
Tulloch, John Reay
 

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