... 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. Sergeant Stanley Goozee survived the war.

... this apparent willingness to play a subservient role in foreign wars in turn fuelled growing Australian nationalism.

... the apparent breakdown of military discipline in the guerrilla war in South Africa, particularly amongst colonial contingents.& ...

... Hong Kong shot by Sergeant Tulloch under the title 'Hong Kong Today', see related items.

Taken together, the material shot as 'Hong Kong Today' provides an interesting but perhaps somewhat one-sided view of life in early post-war Hong Kong.

... Forces with a sign which reads 'War Crimes Court No.5'; the General Officer ... opening of the trials of suspected Japanese war criminals.

Notes

For other material ... , in violation of the laws and usages of war, were together concerned in the beating ...

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

Shot on 23 October 1945: view of Rempang Island from the sea. View of the Japanese naval HQ ship, the Aki Maru. Views of the island. Views of typical jungle country on the island. ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Shot from Sunderland of repairs to float and refuelling from DUKW amphibious truck. Airmen hanging washing out on hull of Sunderland. Airborne shots of Brahmaputra River ...

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

'T for Tommy', a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron tasked with delivering rice to Kuantan in Malaya, is seen beached after crashing ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Soldiers on a tank as it travels on a transporter.

(Reel 9) American tank crews attached to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry line up as the cook sounds the gong for lunch. The men sitting and ...

... are met by their African grooms and their European owners and trainers.

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African troops return from the war in the Far East. Battle training for African infantry. The Nairobi races.

Notes

Summary: John Wernham recorded ...

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At the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment beat the retreat before an audience including the Sultan of ...

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

After the headquarters of 7th Indian ...

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

Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy, commander Malaya Command, inspects men and vehicles of 16th Light Cavalry.

Messervy inspects a guard of ...

... , escorts a blindfolded Japanese prisoner. Various shots of Allied prisoners of war, both British and American, posing for the camera. Allied servicemen look a Japanese prisoner of war (seen earlier?) confined in a small cell made of wood and ...

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

Confronted by a blown bridge on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma, tanks and motor vehicles of 63 Brigade, 17th Indian Division, ford a chaung ( ...

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

A battery of Ordnance SB 4.2-inch mortars firing. At Hlegu chaung (river or watercourse) vehicles are hauled up the riverbank. An Indian Army Public Relations officer, Captain ...

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

Film shot by Sergeant Abbott: Aerial footage; the camera looks through the windscreen of an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of RAF 194 Squadron towards hills shrouded in ...

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 WARUnited States of America

On the Maungdaw- ...

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

After crossing the River Irrawaddy at Singu, troops of the 6th Rajputana Rifles advance south towards Mandalay, Burmas second city.

.Indian ...

... sits in a jeep with an Indian driver; in the back of the jeep are two blindfolded Japanese prisoners of war.

Notes

The dopesheet refers to an armoured column of tanks, artillery and Punjabi troops which was tasked with driving to Mandalay. ...

... station which served as the summer capital of Burma due to its cooler and less humid climate than Rangoon. During the war it was the site of a Japanese internment camp in which large numbers of British, Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese civilians were held. ...

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

20th Indian Division formed a bridgehead over the River Irrawaddy, crossing at Myinmu, Burma, on the night of 12 February 1945 and reinforced it over ...

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

Reel 1: RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers overhead. Lee medium tanks driving along a dusty road. A Lee passes with infantry crowded on its rear hull. A column of tanks and ...

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

Somewhere in Burma, probably during the ...

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

At Mawlaik in Burma troops of 20th ...