Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, presents a captured Japanese artillery piece to the people of Singapore.

Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford arrives at the Municipal Building. Lord Killearn, Special Commissioner for South East Asia, arrives. Edwina Mountbatten arrives with Major-General Kimmins. Lord Mountbatten and Gimson inspecting guard of honour. They walk over to the gun. Inspecting the gun and reading a plaque mounted on it. Receiving a Union flag. Returning the flag; it is marched off. The flag is marched into the Municipal Building. Close-up of the plaque on the Japanese gun. Gimson and Mountbatten take the salute as the guard of honour march past. Gimson and Mountbatten departing. Killearn departing. Stopford departing. Kimmins departing.

Notes

The Japanese gun is a 105mm Type 92. It was capable of projecting a 35lb shell 20,000 yards.

The flag seen in this film was carried by Brigadier Newbigging as he walked with Lieutenant-General Percival's party to meet the Japanese prior to the British surrender in February 1942. The party's interpreter was a Japanese-speaking officer named Cyril Wild, seen here as flagbearer. The flag was secretly kept by Wild throughout his period of captivity and was flown again at the Japanese surrender in September 1945. In 1965 the flag was acquired by the Imperial War Museum and its reference number is below. See related items.

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