... September 1917, xxi.
‘Animated History of the War’, Bioscope, 11 October 1917, 54.
[Wellington] ... : Spellmount, 2006).
Fogarty, Richard S., Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army ...
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CYPRUS GOES TO WAR 1941
... of Alfred Hitchcock films. Following the War he worked as a special effects cameraman at Pinewood. ... adopting a pro-British policy in the War (Hitchens, 1984, 36). Similarly, following the ... note of the wartime economy. The War boosted demands for the island ... -
HILLMEN GO TO WAR 1944
... way in which Indian hill tribes make contributions to the War effort.An annual religious festival accompanied by music and ... All India Radio (Cook and Cook).
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OUTPOST AT WAR 1944
... of African History, Vol. 33, no. 1, 1992, 124).Outpost at War illustrates the value of Rhodesia to the imperial war ... The British Empire and the Second World War (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006).
Johnson, David, ...
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WAR CAME TO KENYA 1941
... promotes this notion of a united African response to the War (Webster, 2005, 31).It is however clear that the film ... and Richard Rathbone (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986).
‘War Came to Kenya’, Monthly Film Bulletin, ...
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... resigned their positions, protesting at Viceroy Linlithgow’s declaration of war. In March 1942 Sir Stafford Cripps, Leader ... (Brown, 1994, 328). The 51st edition of War Pictorial News delivers a reassuring portrait of Indian ... -
... service of these men is the subject of Newfoundlanders at War.
A Ministry of Information film produced by Pathé, ... in their work.
Naturally, the nitty-gritty of war is studiously avoided in favour of scenes of hard work, ...
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... Indian sub-continent during the war. Burma was also the territory ... 1944).
The first two sections of War Pictorial News 161 display different ... is different in several ways. Here the War is an abstract concept to be negotiated, and members ...
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... viewed (COI File, 27 October 1948).
Far East War Magazine No. 1 presents ‘the routine story ... >Tom Rice (April 08)
‘Far East War Magazine No. 1’, COI File, 27 October 1948. ...
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... up into bars and stamped with WD (War department).
Reel 2 (AYY 294-2-1): General ... different roles of Africans within the war effort, from the production of goods ... of British women in Africa during the war, it largely endorses gender stereotypes. The ...
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... but vastly different aspects of the war experience in the Gold Coast.
The ... all working together to serve the British war effort.
The second item illustrates ... Coast During the Second World War’, The Journal of African History ...
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... whole of East Africa after the war’ (Kubik, 1981, 92). Amongst the ... from Kalewa.In his study of post-war popular music in East Africa, Gerhard ... of Africans serving overseas fuelled post-war nationalist movements. As an example, Ally Sykes ...
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... noted that The British Empire at War ‘did not show ... recognition now afforded to the African war effort. Both of these inserts illustrate ... )
‘The British Empire at War’, Colonial Cinema, March 1945 ...
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... the Unit produced shortly after the War, ‘a limited number of films for ... the Auxiliary Territorial Service and the War Office.Welfare with its ... unknown), accessed from the Imperial War Museum.
Rawlinson, Ken, ‘The ...
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... the Allied cause during the War, but following Indian independence he urged ... majesty as the tide turned in the War. Consequently, the footage concentrates primarily ... Empire and the Second World War (Hambledon Continuum, 2006).
Gladstone ...
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... Colonial Film Unit’s newsreel, The British Empire at War. The second item (of three) within News Film no. ... ’ (Colonial Cinema, 1945, 24). The British Empire at War newsreel was predominantly designed for showing ...
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... Relations Headquarters, East African Command, accessed at the Imperial War Museum (824/1).
See the original dope sheets and shot sheets, available at the Imperial War Museum.
For further information on the training of Africans ...
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... on British military medicine during the War, emphasised the mobility of the medical ... offered to African troops during the war. In showing this, it highlights the British ... Military Medicine in the Second World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press ...
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... ;Anyone who had experience of the War on the Western Front – with ... trained in that section of the art of war’ (Kearton, 1935, 210).While ... film is of historical import as a record of the war effort in East Africa, it is also noteworthy ...
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... across the Steppe.
The newsreel series War Pictorial News was compiled by the ... for Bengal’s problems: the war in Burma had cut off supplies ... had […] passed’ (Sen, 1981, 55). War Pictorial News No. 153 was ...
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... names above can be found through the Oorslogsgravenstichting (Netherlands War Graves Foundation) website at http://www.ogs.nl
Two ... ' top priority became the Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, an operation known as RAPWI. Given that ...
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'HONG KONG TODAY': REHABILITATION OF HONG KONG AND OPENING OF HONG KONG WAR CRIMES TRIALS (6/3/1946) 1946
... 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 ...
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... WARGB
The first trials of Japanese war criminals at Singapore get underway.
General view of the ... Prime Minister), Koki Hirota (Foreign Minister), Seishiro Itagaki (War Minister) and Heitaro Kimura (commander Burma Area ...
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... to sustain our Commonwealth and wage war against Hitler's Germany. The situation ... themselves instead of taking part in a distant war; the Japanese attack on Midway; the ... with the cooperation of the Admiralty, War Office, Ministry of Supply, Central Office ...
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... , 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 ...
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... (February 2009)
Allen, Louis, Burma: The Longest War 1941-5 (London and Melbourne: J. M. Dent & ... Jan-Feb 1945’, http://www. ...
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... class='iwm_synopsis header'>Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity at Changi ... by hospital ship.
Crowd of freed prisoners of war at Changi jail with waiting car ... an open day for freed prisoners of war and internees. See also JFU ...
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... . Auchinleck walks swiftly along a line of Italian prisoners of war. Auchinleck speaking with a British brigadier; behind him an Italian officer, possibly of the Bersaglieri. At a prisoner of war camp (probably at Bairagarh, near Bhopal) with Italian ...
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... WARGB
Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, ... slide open as a lorry carrying suspected war criminals approaches. The lorry drives ... '.
Stanley jail was a modern, pre-war civil jail and was used ...
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... WORLD WARGB
At Bangkok jail suspected Japanese war criminals are paraded in front of ex-prisoners of war and ... of Japan, and with the recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees in full swing, attention was turned to the ...
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... against the defendants related to the maltreatment of Indian prisoners of war and the beheading of Sepoy Mohammed Shafi. Nakamura ... More information can be found on the University of California Berkeley's War Crimes Studies Centre website. See reference below ...
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... SECOND WORLD WARGB
Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at ... in the harbour. Japanese soldiers, now themselves prisoners of war, filling in trenches in the grounds of an ecclesiastical building, ...
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... WORLD WARGB
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by ... had 12 years service overseas.
Air evacuation of prisoners of war and internees accounted for only some 3,000 ...
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... header'>At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.
Shot from beneath the gallows ... executed for the beating to death of two British prisoners of war at Kanburi, Thailand, in 1943. See Lomax reference below.
The ...
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... header'>At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.
A hooded Japanese prisoner, probably ... executed for the beating to death of two British prisoners of war at Kanburi, Thailand, in 1943. See Lomax reference below ...
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... sound at Changi Jail, Singapore, showing three convicted Japanese war criminals being hanged.
Three shots, all taken ... were executed for beating to death two British prisoners of war at Kanburi, Thailand, in 1943. See Lomax reference below.
The ...
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... Yengayaung’s oil was of obvious strategic importance in World War II. As the Allied forces retreated from Burma in 1942 ... 4811 (30 December 1949), 121-36.
Kirby, S. Woodburn, et al, The War Against Japan: Vol IV The Reconquest of Burma ...
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... More information can be found on the University of California Berkeley's War Crimes Studies Centre website. See reference below.
... against the defendants related to the maltreatment of Indian prisoners of war and the beheading of Sepoy Mohammed Shafi. ...
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... ='iwm_synopsis header'>1,403 freed Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees board the ... the many thousands of internees and prisoners of war scattered across south east Asia. ... successful corps commander during the war and was appointed to command the ...
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... ='iwm_synopsis header'>Former Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Siam ... parked lorries with released prisoners of war getting out. Men wait a while ... related items.
For footage of prisoners of war being flown out of Siam, see ...
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... airfield near Bangkok. The crew disemplane. Allied prisoners of war (POWs) awaiting transport. Japanese personnel. Released prisoners ... fly to Bangkok, Siam (Thailand), to recover Allied prisoners of war and internees.
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'Mastiff' marking on a ...
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... on the world. This film illustrates the war in the desert and the desert air force.
Since World War One the Middle East has been guarded ... Ministry and with the cooperation of the Admiralty, War Office, Ministry of Supply, Central Office of ...
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... out. Two men attend to a patient on a stretcher. A line of prisoners of war (POWs). A man on a stretcher is carried through a doorway ...
A good illustration of the multi-national nature of the war in South East Asia.
Dopesheet remarks that many ...
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... applauds. At Rangoon jail a group of newly liberated Allied prisoners of war pose for the camera. In the background the message ' ... only for burials, flying above the jail. Chinese prisoners of war. Indian prisoners behind a barred gate. Indian prisoners, one ...
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... WORLD WARGB
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are ... South East Asia Command had evacuated 53,700 prisoners of war and internees, rising to 71,000 by the end of October ...
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... header'>In Rangoon Central Jail, Burma, three convicted Japanese war criminals are executed for their part in the ... drawn from 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment.
The Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive holds an interview with the cameraman of ...
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... DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Convicted Japanese war criminal Captain Uyeno Masakaru is executed at Rangoon Central Jail.
... had housed a number of captured Allied airmen during the war, and was liberated in May 1945.
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... THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Japanese prisoners accused of war crimes are held in cells before the opening of the Singapore war crimes trials.
Very dark and unclear footage of Japanese soldiers being ...
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