Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Harry Porter of the 8th (Belfast) HAA Regiment Royal Artillery gives detailed record of military and off-duty activities of his unit in Burma, 1942-1945, and of his own travels in wartime India. Film shows men of his unit, raised in Northern Ireland, preparing and firing their 3.7-inch guns against the Japanese in the Arakan Peninsula, celebrating Saint Patrick's Day in Burma, off-duty scenes in Calcutta, Tipera State, Kashmir, Madras, voyage back via Suez Canal and Liverpool to Larne (passing surrendered German U-boats), welcome home by Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke (later Viscount Brookeborough), and march past Belfast City Hall in September 1945.

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Summary: film was edited for BBC Northern Ireland as THE TWELVE MILE SNIPERS by David Dillon, commentated by Colonel Porter, held as MGH 4400.