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

In Pegu, Burma, a club for Viceroy's Commissioned Officers is opened by the commander of 454 Sub-Area, Colonel A B R Leech.

Leech passes a guard ...

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

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, makes a tour of inspection of Army and Royal Marine Commando units in Hong Kong ...

... with soldier, with his back to camera, with a slung Sten submachine gun. Landscape shot. A photographer, probably War Correspondent Allan MacPherson, smokes a cigarette. Patrol commander speaks on a wireless set. RAF Thunderbolt fighter-bomber overhead. ...

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

In Rangoon, capital of Burma, British and Japanese officers attend a conference to discuss the conduct of the Burma campaign.

Pan along an ...

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

The Singapore Police conduct searches of civilian vehicles in the vicinity of the Happy World amusement park in Singapore, four years to the day after ...

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

A reconnaissance in force is made to the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), with the support of tanks and ...

... appears to be wearing the patch of 5th Indian Division (Major-General Mansergh?).

Clark, speaking at a reunion held at the Imperial War Museum, recalled that this was his first film since he completed his training, and he was lambasted by more ...

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

Brief film showing part of an air-sea rescue exercise with an airborne lifeboat Mk II near Singapore.

Six men onboard a motor launch trying to ...

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

Chinese troops of New First Army, veterans of the Burma campaign, board American landing ships at Kowloon docks in Hong Kong for transport to Manchuria ...

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

Rice, supplied by the Siamese (Thai) government, is unloaded onto DUKW amphibians at Port Swettenham in Selangor, Malaya.

View from aboard a ...

... shot in under 100 feet of film.

This construction forms part of a more general programme of works intended to repair infrastructure in south eat Asia which had been severely degraded by the war. For film of such work in Burma, see related items.

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

Sir Miles Lampson, Lord Killearn, Special Commissioner to South East Asia, arrives at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is greeted by Lord Mountbatten ( ...