... in action. He and his pilot, Flight Lieutenant J G Buchanan of RAF 110 Squadron, failed to return after a Mosquito sortie over Rangoon on 2 May 1945. They are buried in adjacent plots in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Rangoon War Cemetery.

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

Members of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) including George Formby, the British music hall artist, arrive to entertain ...

... captured by the British in 1704 during the War of Spanish Succession. Although nominally claimed ... years leading up to the First World War Gibraltar witnessed its greatest period ... of the British during the Boer War (Jackson, 1987, 261).

During the ...

... 1942. Visit of Mr R G Casey, representative of the British War Cabinet in the Middle East and ... from the preceding cuts to show Gibraltar at war. It was never finished. Includes shot ... a feature film on Gibraltar during the war, which was in fact never made ...

Amateur footage of the dismantling of Gibraltar's 9.2-inch gun prior to being shipped to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in 1982.

Notes

Technical: Originally filmed in Super 8mm.

... ). Moreover, Judith Brown has argued that:

…despite the economic upheavals of the war and its aftermath, despite the British bid for a new political order and Gandhi’s visionary enterprise, much remained ...

... to record events in wartime Britain. Her film of the war, including extraordinary footage of the London Blitz, was ... of the confident directness that makes Britain at War so visually arresting).

Nevertheless, it is evident that Newman is ...

... and governed’ – but was critical of their speed in implementing policy. ‘Its declared policy after World War I’, he wrote, ‘was that the interest of the indigenous people of the colonies should be paramount and the political ...

... in 1935 and which was used during the war primarily to promote the British war effort. Historians Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola noted that ‘the ... shows, especially towards the end of the war as calls for independence intensified’ ...

Great Britain

ACTUALITY. Boer war. Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

Troops in khaki kilts march turning a corner and marching to the right past lines of ...

Great Britain

ACTUALITY. Single shot. A procession of troops, led by pipers, marches in front of the camera. Taken at Union Terrace, Aberdeen, with the William Wallace statue in the background (62ft).

Refs: National Film Archive, Catalogue, Part ...

... significant. They had previously been the Burma National Army under Aung San. Aung San had gone from being a pre-war nationalist nuisance, to the head of a Japanese-sponsored paramilitary force (the Burma National Army's forerunners) and then leader of a ...