Mandalay, Burma's second city, has been left deserted but for a few hardy local people and some military personnel as the war moves to the south; the devastation from the British bombing and shelling is very evident.

A large church. A locomotive marked in large, white numbers 48 and in smaller numbers as 448 is looked at by Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners Group, Indian Engineers. The train sits in a siding. Two of the men stand on the steps up to the cab. The locomotive steams off backwards then comes back into the sidings forwards. British troops visit a stall in Mandalay and barter with the local stall holder. One soldier shakes his head, replaces the goods on the stall and walks away; he has a pipe in his mouth. Two ox carts pulled by two oxen come along a street with ramshackle buildings along it and turn a corner. The carts carry bits of furniture and bicycles. Two women sit on the back of one cart and shade themselves from the sun with a parasol. People on bicycles and jeeps move along city streets. A jeep drives along a long, straight, deserted road; this road is lined by badly damaged buildings.

Notes

For film showing the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) at work in Mandalay, see related items. Mandalay fell to troops on 19th Indian Division in mid-March 1945.