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    ENTERTAINMENTS ON BOARD HMT DILWARA 14 - 29 JULY 1945 (7/1945) 1945

    ... onboard the troopship HMT Dilwara.

    A tug-of-war; Indian Other Ranks (ORs) versus ... ORs are defeated. Second tug-of-war; Sergeants versus Officers. The officers ... handed a certificate of initiation. A third tug-of-war; Sergeants versus Ship's Crew. The ...

     
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    FOOTBALL MATCH ON THE COCOS ISLANDS (7/1945) 1945

    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Islanders play football against an Army team on Home Island, part of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands attol.

    The game in progress. Local civilians ( ...

     
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    JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON (26/8/1945) 1945

    ... massive loss of life and wrecked war industries before culminating in atomic attacks ... period the Soviet Union declared war and invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria. ... facilitated the recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees, a process known as RAPWI ...
     
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    RAF REGIMENT BUILD-UP (25/8/1945) 1945

    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Men of the RAF Regiment man gun positions on troopships in the Rangoon River before sailing for Singapore.

    RAF Regiment airmen man a 20mm ...

     
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    JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON SIGN INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER (28/8/1945) 1945

    ... massive loss of life and wrecked war industries before culminating in atomic attacks ... period the Soviet Union declared war and invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria. ... facilitated the recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees, a process known as RAPWI ...
     
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    CANADIANS DELIVER RICE TO ISOLATED BURMESE (5/9/1945) 1945

    ... raw footage held as ABY 122 and 124. See related items.

    This film appears in an edited form in the Ministry of Information's Middle Eastern newsreel 'World Pictorial News' (formerly 'War Pictorial News'), also held by the IWM. See related items.

     
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    LIBERATED PRISONERS OF WAR AT CHANGI JAIL, SINGAPORE (5/9/1945) 1945

    ... a crowd lining a road in Singapore taken from a moving vehicle. At the notorious Changi prison camp liberated Allied prisoners of war cheer. Emaciated men walking, unsteadily, with canes. An old man, apparently a local, similarly emaciated with his ribs ...
     
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    THE RAF ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE (5/9/1945) 1945

    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Views of a troopship convoy to Singapore, views of the city, and Allied prisoners liberated from Changi prison camp.

    Views from a troopship ...

     
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    HIS HIGHNESS THE MAHARAJAH OF MANIPUR'S DANCERS (19/9/1945) 1945

    ... one of the Maharajah's residences.

    This footage appears in an edited form in the Ministry of Information's Middle Eastern newsreel 'World Pictorial News' (formerly 'War Pictorial News'). See related items.

    No slates. Date as on dopesheet.

     
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    ISLAND BASES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: ISLE OF MAHÉ, ADDU ATOLL AND DIEGO GARCIA (1945) 1945

    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Reel 1: (Diego Garcia) Aerial view of a ship at sea and of an island in the Indian Ocean, probably Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago. Two men operate a fuel pump; a pipe ...

     
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    RAF EVACUATE ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR FROM THAILAND (14/9/1945) 1945

    ... DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft fly liberated Allied prisoners of war (POWs) to Rangoon, Burma, from Don Muang airfield near Bangkok, capital of Japanese-occupied Siam (Thailand).

    A ...

     
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    JAPANESE SURRENDER OF SELETAR AIRFIELD (9/9/1945) 1945

    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Film of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten arriving at Singapore in advance of the formal Japanese surrender, and the surrender of Seletar airfield ...