An impression of London's West End in wartime.

A soldier in a Far East posting explains to his mate the special significance of Piccadilly to a Londoner. The film cuts to the Underground and people making their way ...

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Dunford records naval scenes while serving on HMS Verdun in 1945, passage to Oslo in 1945 as naval escort for King Haakon returning to Norway, then naval and shore scenes in Malta, Ceylon (HMS Mayina), Singapore, ...

Amateur film taken by an unknown British cameraman of the victory parade by 23rd Indian Division of the Indian Army, comprising 1 Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier R C M King), 37 Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier N Macdonald) and 49 Indian ...

Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland.

Notes

Summary: Delivery note inside can and dated 26 November 1945 indicates film was sent by O.C. 13 Section AKS to County Welfare Officer, Dundee ( ...

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Brighton and Hastings areas. Canteen scenes

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in Brighton, Haywards Heath, Newhaven and Hastings (Sussex).

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in Brighton.

REEL 1- KASHMIR NO 1 - EARLY SPRING. Srinagar:- 1st Bridge, Hotel Road, Nedou's Hotel, Golf Course at back of hotel, houseboats Chenar Bagh (garden). English church vicarage and garden. Almond, cherry, pear and peach blossom. Magnolia, forsythia. Up ...

A British man, two Burmese women and children standing outside building. A British man holding a small child. Shots of the women and children, a dog walks out of the building. A group of Indian and Anglo- ...

A Burmese man weightlifting. A shot of Shwedagon temple. Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) walks amongst pigeons in the grounds of the temple. Logging on the river, men ...

Amateur film of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten taking the salute of the representative services at the Naval Review, Rangoon (17 ...

Close-up of Lord Mountbatten taking the salute at the Victory Parade, Rangoon, 15 June 1945.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Technical: original/copy ...

This amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson appears to be reconstructed scenes of BNA exercises in the jungle.

Two Burmese soldiers, one plays the bugle. Burma National Army ( ...

Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...

A DC3/C47 taking off from an airstrip and landing again. A group of Bhuddist monks (sayadaws).

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Technical: film marked " ...

Horses are led passed crowd at racecourse. Lord and Lady Dorman-Smith present silver bowl to Indian racehorse owner ? and British officer. Brief shot of the Dorman-Smiths taking their seats, along with several British ...

Funeral of Sawbwa (ruler) of Hsipaw state, in the Northern Shan States of Burma, with parade by Gurkha Battalion (8th ?) who fire volley over coffin. Also scenes of gambling, presumably ...

Burmese men buy longyis (traditional Burmese sarongs) from a stall. A Burmese woman brings a new born baby for a (Burmese?) military doctor to examine. Burmese men fill sacks with rice? in the background is ...

Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.

Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...

Aerial views of a river and surrounding jungle in Burma. View of the river from a hillside. A Burmese man (possibly near Myitkyina, Kachin?) walks towards the camera through a wooded area. Views of the ...

The first soldier wears a beret with metal cap badge, his shoulder flash is of two (white) crossed keys on a black background, the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Division. ...

A Japanese man (in military-style clothing) attempts to open a damaged safe? amongst the rubble in Hiroshima. A British naval officer (possibly Hodgkinson's friend Frank Worth) climbs a stairway. He looks ...

Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while ...

Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.

Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at ...