... Japanese personnel are put to work in Singapore.

Japanese prisoners of war doing manual labour in Singapore; there is a large ... close-up of Major-General Masatoshi Saito, commander of prisoner of war camps in Malaya and Singapore. Despite there being ...

... names above can be found through the Oorslogsgravenstichting (Netherlands War Graves Foundation) website at http://www.ogs.nl

Two ... ' top priority became the Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, an operation known as RAPWI. Given that ...

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

Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part of Operation Zipper.

Troops making their way ...

... 1945 and was according to the official history 'the longest opposed river crossing in any theatre of the Second World War'. Following a covert reconnaissance by a Sea Reconnaissance Unit and a Special Boat Section, a company of 2nd Battalion, South ...

... boys school in Kuala Lumpur and was opened in 1893. It currently has a student body of around 1200 and during the war was the site firstly of a Japanese administrative centre, later the surrender seen in this film, and finally (with the building being ...

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

Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.

Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...

... with various officers. Mountbatten and Slim departing by staff car. On the airfield at Kuala Lumpur. Three Japanese prisoners of war with a British and an American officer (China-Burma-India patch). Mountbatten meeting troops. Slim talks with a number of ...

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

With the surrender of Japan, troops of 23rd Indian Division mount an amphibious landing near Port Dickson on the Malayan coast, as part of Operation ...

... WARGB

The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp in Singapore, following the liberation of the inmates.

A procession of priests, led by a bearer carrying ...

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

A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the United States Army Air Force arrives at Kallang Airport, Singapore, to evacuate American internees.

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... a Royal Marine band for inmates at Sime Road prisoner of war camp.

Chinese victory parade in Singapore headed by a Chinese ... seen holding a miniature British flag. At Sime Road prisoner of war camp a Royal Marine band performs for liberated internees, ...

... soldier in the foreground. Civilians looking on. Japanese troops at work. Japanese troops working with British ex-prisoners of war watching; a Union flag flies at the flagstaff of the Municipal Building in the background.

Notes

Given that the ...