Great Britain

ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.

A small contingent of soldiers march along the quayside (44). Lord Roberts disembarks from his ship and inspects the guard of honour (82). He ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Vice-Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, commander British Pacific Fleet, arrives in Hong Kong.

Boyd steps ashore from an admiral's barge and is greeted by ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Australian troops and nurses arrive by hospital ship at Singapore. Medical stores are unloaded and crates of Canadian Ford equipment, addressed to the Minister of Supplies, Singapore. The men and nurses ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Tanks and troops at Port Tewfik, Egypt.

Anti-tank guns being towed away by trucks. Labourers at work on dockside. Valentine Mark III tanks running onto tank transporters ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian Division.

French troops ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilcox: High and wide shot from the Kallang terminal building; an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft is taxiing. Dakota with reception committee and ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The Governor-General of Malaya, Malcolm MacDonald, arrives at Changi airport Singapore.

MacDonald is greeted at Changi. He receives a salute. He ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Pan American flying boat "Anzac Clipper" escorted by Brewster Buffaloes lands on the water at Singapore Civil Airport and taxies away. Alfred and Lady Diana Duff Cooper leave the plane, followed by Mr ...

... out. Two men attend to a patient on a stretcher. A line of prisoners of war (POWs). A man on a stretcher is carried through a doorway ...

A good illustration of the multi-national nature of the war in South East Asia.

Dopesheet remarks that many ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

RAF Regiment guard of honour presenting arms at Kallang airport. Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, takes the salute. Mountbatten and senior officers. ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Part 1, by Sergeant Clark: Gent steps down from an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft and is greeted. He talks with the assembled people on at the airstrip. At the headquarters ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Sir Godfrey Huggins, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, visits Richard Casey and the 237 Rhodesian Squadron, RAF at El Daba. The Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Colonel Day leave ...