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

Spectators. Band of the 12th Frontier Force Regiment marching on the padang before the Municipal Building. Pan of the band. Close-up of the bandmaster. Band playing. Guard of honour presenting arms. Governor of Singapore Sir Franklin Gimson at the salute. Long lens views as Gimson and Mountbatten inspect the guard of honour. Mountbatten speaking from the steps of the Municipal Building. Wide view of the unveiling of the Japanese gun. Wide view of the presentation of a Union flag.

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. 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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