At the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment beat the retreat before an audience including the Sultan of Selangor, Alam Shah, Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, and Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy.

Messervy (General Officer Commanding Malaya) and Dempsey (commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia) meet the Sultan of Selangor. The three are seated. Sikh pipe band marches across the parade ground. Pipe band slow marching towards camera. A detachment of buglers in white aprons playing. Assembled senior officers and the Sultan. Dempsey saluting. Close-up of Dempsey.

Notes

Alam Shah had been Sultan before the Japanese occupation in 1942. He was deposed by the Japanese in favour of his elder half-brother, who was installed as Tengku Musa Eddin. On the return of the British Musa Eddin was exiled to the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean. In this period a series of constitutional reforms were in progress that would create the short-lived Malayan Union. Alam Shah originally signed the treaty, but would later repudiate it.