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

At the Municipal Building in Singapore, the new Governor-General of Malaya, Malcolm MacDonald, is installed.

Wide shot of MacDonald receiving a ...

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

At the Municipal Building in Singapore, the new Governor General of Malaya, Malcolm MacDonald, is installed.

Dignitaries arriving including Lord ...

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

Part 1, shot by Sergeant Brown: McKerron and Major-General Lionel Cox, commander Singapore District, leaving the Municipal Building. McKerron, Cox and others at the salute for the ...

... aboard HMS Alacrity.

Notes

For other film of Sarawak in this period, see related items. Sarawak had previously been a British Protectorate, but under post-war constitutional reforms, sovereignty was ceded (with some acrimony) to the Crown.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

"Indo-China. Railroad War". An attack on a train by guerrillas in Indo-China. The train had armed guards who fought back. Scenes of repairs to the track which is bombed daily by the guerrillas - Viet-Minh. "Princess Elizabeth at ...

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

As Fourteenth Army advance across the Shwebo Plain in Burma, intelligence officers and members of the Burma Intelligence Corps question local villagers ...

... to an American is significant; Dorman-Smith was a colonial governor and the United States was utterly disinterested in supporting the war in Burma simply to restore British imperial prestige. By the time this film was shot, the US operational objective of ...

... 's 'middle of February'. Corresponding stills for this crossing, probably taken by the same cameraman and held by the Imperial War Museum's Photograph Archive, can be seen at the references below. See related items.

The Film and Video Archive holds a ...

... ’. ‘The people were primitive’, the voiceover explains, there were ‘warlike pastoral tribes’ and ‘war and disease levied their toll on East Africa’. In contrast, the film shows modern Nairobi, which is ‘ ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Exercise at Mombasa, Kenya.

121 Force scale the cliff face, defended by the King's African Rifles. Lieutenant-Colonel M M Alston-Roberts-West is commanding the 2nd ...

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

Troops of 25th Indian Division make an ...