POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Film of naval activities during the Coronation Day celebrations ... ; Duck Race (with live ducks/sand martins); canoe tug-of-war. Flypast of Sunderlands from Seletar, Singapore, watched by Borneo locals ...

... nurses dress a woman's leg. A four-day old baby. Gynaecological view of a Chinese woman forced into prostitution during the war and suffering severely from venereal disease. Group of four nurses named on the dopesheet as Tan, Majid, Pahang and Meriam with ...

... Company Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) dispose of Japanese ordnance, with the help of some interned Japanese prisoners of war.

View of piles of crated stores with a stationary DUKW ('Duck') amphibious truck behind. Dark shot of Japanese personnel ...

... aircraft are Lockheed Hudsons and Glen Martins. "Bombing-up" exercise.

Notes

Film sent by the Services Public Relations Officer, Singapore, to the War Office on 25 November 1941. They were devloped in Australia and returned to Singapore.

SEA WAR

British naval operations at Malta in World War II.

... the elephant-built bridge. Jeep crosses.

Notes

While the 1944-45 Burma campaign was in many ways an extremely modern war, this film provides an effective demonstration of the continuing employment of animal power in warfare.

The unit is ...

... arms before the arrival of sufficient Allied troops to take over the administration. Dutch attempts to restore their pre-war administration with the apparent support of the British sparked violence between Japanese-trained Indonesian troops, large numbers ...

... ' can be read.

Notes

Dopesheet for this film is undated, but likely date is mid-late September 1945. During the war the Japanese had proclaimed a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and anti-colonial rhetoric and propaganda had been a key ...

... Shimpei Fukuye (also Shinpei Fukuei) was executed for his responsibility for the shooting of four Britsh and Australian prisoners of war on 2 September 1942 on Changi beach, and for the 'Selarang Barracks Incident' in which 15,000 prisoners were confined ...

... references below.

The fighting in Surabaya was well covered by British official photographers whose work is held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive. See related items.

While the fighting in this film is largely implied rather than ...

... impact, unmistakeably demonstrating the resolve of the nationalist movement.

The fighting in Surabaya was well covered by British official photographers whose work is held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive. See related items.

... 's Commissioned Officer (Indian Army Veterinary Corps (IAVC) epaulette) who served four years in France during the First World War. Meeting other IAVC troops and seeing their veterinary medicines. Rubbing down animals and speaking to a British officer. An ...