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

British troops of 19th Indian Division begin to fight their way into the northern part of the city of Mandalay, Burma.

Troops from the 8th ...

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

With the surrender of Japan and the Allied reoccupation of Singapore, Japanese civilians and troops are interned and put to work.

Japanese civil ...

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

British troops of No. 5 Army Commando round up Japanese troops at Fanling, 20 miles from Kowloon, before putting them on a train to an internment camp ...

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

Surrendered Japanese troops are put to work unloading ships at Kowloon docks near Hong Kong.

Seated Japanese troops; a commando with a Thompson ...

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

French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian Division.

French troops ...

... 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 ...

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Notes

The Seaforth Highlanders had coincidentally been involved in Britain's first occupation of Java in 1811.

Before the war Batavia had been capital of the Netherlands East Indies. During their occupation the Japanese had encouraged ...

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

Views from Mandalay Hill, Burma, of Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns and BL 5.5-inch medium guns shelling Japanese sniper positions in a Buddhist ...

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

Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of rice are unloaded from a lorry and put aboard a small boat. Close-ups of two ...

... areas of Singapore related to the recovery of Allied prisoners of war.

During a visit to airmen of the Royal Australian Air ... Lady Mountbatten, in sunglasses, meets Australian former prisoners of war (POWs). Lord Mountbatten meets Australian officers, ...

... 'HQ British Military Administration Malay Peninsula'. Wide shot shows the sign and the HQ building.

Notes

After the war the British planned to create a Malayan Union from the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated ...

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

On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division surrender, while the officers of the division lay down ...