BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...

... , showing film of the Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad, the British Alamein campaign, and Indian mobilisation for the Allied war effort to counteract each of the newsreel points. The end of the newsreel is followed by scenes of activities in North ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Reel 1: A file of Indian troops of (probably 14th Battalion) 13th Frontier Force Rifles, seen in silhouette, walks towards the shore of the River Irrawaddy; the sun is low on the ...

... 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 ...