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

Air Chief Commandant Lady R M E Welsh, Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ('the WAAFs') visits No. 9 RAF General Hospital in Calcutta, India ...

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

Victory parade and celebrations in Hong Kong after the surrender of Japanese forces and its liberation by British troops.

Navy, Army and RAF ...

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

Airmen enjoy some time on leave in Bombay (Mumbai), India, while awaiting embarkation for return to the United Kingdom

Indian countryside seen ...

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

Reel 1: Views from the Penang Hill Railway. The carriage passes a signboard with a (long) list of rules for a local swimming pool in English and Japanese. The carriage enters a ...

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

British troops seen coming ashore at Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), on parade and taking over Glugor seaplane base from the Japanese.

The tote ...

... to RAF men. Park visits an RAF recreation club. Japanese prisoners of war at work clearing rocks, probably at the quarry seen earlier. ... across the top. This is probably the badge of the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John Ambulance.

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... Commanding Air Headquarters Malaya, aboard a Landing Craft Personnel (Large) to visit an RAF headquarters ship. Japanese prisoners of war at work filling in trenches on the Padang, home of the Singapore Cricket Club. Buildings in the background appear to ...

... gives his date of death as 26th October 1945. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) lists a Private George Barbour Douglas of ... Line in 1929. She was requisitioned in 1939, survived the war and was released to civilian passenger service in 1949 on ...

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

RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.

Landscape view of Kai Tak aerodrome panning to an old people's ...

... the monument.

Notes

The Cenotaph in Singapore was built in memory of the 124 Singaporean soldiers who died during the First World War. It was unveiled in March 1922 by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) during a royal tour of Asia on ...

... since been renamed PAF Masroor. This station served as a base for operational flying during the 1965 and 1971 wars with India.

Still photographs of operations at RAF Mauripur can be seen in the IWM still photographs referenced below.

Location ...

... in Singapore, both British servicemen and Japanese prisoners of war receive medical treatment.

A British nurse escorts a British ... grounds; a lorry arrives and interned Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) unload large crates containing medical supplies. ...