In northern Burma, an American cameraman films British troops of 36th Division on the road advancing towards Pinwe.

Chevrolet CMP approaching camera along a road through a wood with one man on the running board and another on the roof the cab. Light (Dodge?) lorry laden with troops passing. Another passes carrying kit. Jeep and lorry passing. A lone British soldier with rifle walks the road. Another lorry (named 'Margery') passes laden with troops. Mule train passes. More lorries pass. Lorries pass graves at the roadside. Close-up one of the grave crosses; '18 11 44 L/Cpl Evans T 5125265 SWB'. Major General Francis Festing, commander 36th Division, passes driving his jeep.

Notes

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) records a Lance Corporal Terence Douglas Lapworth Evans of 6th Battalion South Wales Borderers as being killed on 12 November 1944. He was 21, the son of John Harold and Minnie Evans of Erdington, Birmingham, and is now buried in the CWGCs Taukkyan War Cemetery.

For other footage relating to operations at or near Pinwe, see related items.

Series note: The MWY series of films is believed to be part of a ‘pool’ of film received by the Government of India from various sources, including South East Asia Command, the Indian Inter-Service Public Relations Directorate, the Ministry of Information, and from Allied governments. This footage would have been considered for editing and release through the Indian Newsreel Parade; see INR series.