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

Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as mines on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma ...

... 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.

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

Aerial views showing DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.

Aerial views over the Chindwin; various meanders and sandbars. View of ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Aerial views of jungle terrain filmed from one of the helicopters of 848 Squadron.

Aerial views of jungle-covered hills. The tops of the ridges are obscured by a dense cloud layer which the ...

Amateur footage of shot of delegates for the peace negotiations of the Third Afghan War arriving at the Torkham (frontier), in a mountainous area (27). Views of the Afghan delegation (73ft).

... dance; the line of women move off slowly forming a circle (627).

TS from a boat along the Suez Canal (?); passing a large war memorial (?) and the bank of the canal with large houses (683); fade to wider stretch of canal in flat desert landscape ( ...

... silent newsreel, The British Empire at War. Colonial Cinema regretted that ... and support of the Africans in the war effort: ‘the people of Africa ... , sinking ships, so that we may understand war: not manufacturing aeroplanes, repairing guns ...

... ;s prominent position within a redefined post-War Empire and of the Labour Government& ... greatly changed needs of the post-war world… a glance at Asia is enough ... complete absence of Africa within inter-war pictures of colonials within London. In films ...

... footed, and strong’ (Quinlan, 1995, 493). Thousands of Basuto ponies were exported and killed in action during the Boer War, although the horses were also used for racing.

Although Basutoland was a British protectorate from 1884, the land ...

... Franco-Prussian and the First World Wars. This film erases that map ... of the countries back in Europe about to go to war. He is depicted early in the film on board ... ;"> Strachan, Hew, The First World War in Africa. London:

 

Great Britain

"AFRICA WORLD WAR COMFORTS SERVICE. Pleasure trips on the Thames. June 1918 (10). Wounded Springboks at Windsor and Eton College (13). The 'Sunbury Belle' arrives at Windsor Wharf. Typical scenes on board. Little friends entertain our ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Footage from the town of Imphal in ...