In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess Beatrix.

Footage of the parade ...

Allied troops take part in a ceremonial parade in Bangkok, capital of Siam (Thailand), with His Majesty the King of Siam and Lord Louis Mountbatten, ...

Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII of Siam (Thailand), is received at a garden party thrown by Lord Louis Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia) ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan island off Borneo.

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A detachment of No.1 Army Commando lands on Lamma Island, a few miles from Hong Kong Island, to establish an anti-piracy post.

View from a Royal ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and other ...

Indian troops of 9th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment arrive at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, after a complex transshipping operation.

Indian troops ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

Mountbatten gets out of a ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

View from a high vantage ...

Scenes of daily life in and around Makassar, in the Celebes, Dutch East Indies (now Sulawesi, Indonesia).

Three local civilians on pack horses and a fourth ...

At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.

A hooded Japanese prisoner, probably Sergeant-Major Nobuo Iijima ( ...

At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.

Shot from beneath the gallows in the courtyard of Changi jail ...

Footage shot with live sound at Changi Jail, Singapore, showing three convicted Japanese war criminals being hanged.

Three shots, all taken from a ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital of reoccupied Burma ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...

Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building in Singapore, and the salute is ...

Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above the paddlewheel of a steamer with thick black smoke billowing from a funnel. ...

At Toungoo, Burma, Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of RAF 62 Squadron are loaded with sacks of rice for a supply mission to inaccessible regions of ...

In Hong Kong, British and Indian troops of the so-called 'Brindjap' force, bound for the occupation of Japan, mount a march past.

High shot ...

Reel 1: Shot looking through a set of gates towards a large white building (probably Government House); a sentry is on duty, traffic passes in the foreground and a Union flag flies ...

Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building in Singapore, and the salute is ...

Part 1, by Sergeant Clark: Gent steps down from an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft and is greeted. He talks with the assembled people on at the airstrip. At the headquarters ...

Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke, the third Raja (Rajah) of Sarawak (on the island of Borneo) returns with his wife (the Rani/Ranee) to the capital ...

Part 1, shot on 6 March 1946: Platform sign reads 'Kowloon'. Repeat shot of the sign with pan to a passenger locomotive reversing. Chinese labourers wearing conical straw hats at ...

(9B/second series) September 1945: The first few days of Kibbutz Nitzanim, showing plans and models for the future. Note the Nazi concentration camp numbers tattooed on arms of some kibbutzniks. This kibbutz was largely destroyed in the 1948 ...

Film opens with captions detailing the history of, and current work of, the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU). "1914-1918 Ambulance trains and motor ambulance convoys in France and Belgium. Casualty hospitals in Dunkirk and Britain. Relief work in Belgium ...

Messages home from British Forces stationed in Malaya

Messages home from British Forces stationed in Malaya

Messages home from British Forces stationed in India

Messages home from British Forces stationed in India

Technical documentary illustrates the brewing plant installed in 1945 on board a converted Blue Funnel Line Amenities ship for the supply of beer to British servicemen in the Far East.

View of white-painted MV ...

Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Brighton. Film concludes with shots of production personnel, cameraman etc.

Notes

No. 391 was the last issue of the CALLING BLIGHTY series.

A woman diving from a board into a swimming pool, twice (slow motion). A close-up of a British man and an Anglo-Indian? woman at the poolside. People jumping off the diving board one after another. A large ...

Men and girls fishing in river. Title: "Burma South East Asia Command" view of river rapids. Caption "The Brigade Commander". Close-up of officers in pith helmets. Gurkhas in line marching. Horse rider across plain ...

Close up of an Indian Maharajah (?) saluting (possibly the Maharajah of Rewa, Martand Singh?). Brief shot of two men talking, one wearing a pith helmet, the other a turban.

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Allocated Title taken from ...

Sacred Hindu ceremony of Shami Puja held in grounds of Kothi Palace in Rewa State, Madhya Pradesh, Northern India, on 5 October 1946 in presence of the Indian prince, concluding with ...

Funeral cortege through centre of Salisbury (later Harare) of the Governor of Southern Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), Vice-Admiral Sir William Eric Campbell Tait, formerly Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic.

Notes

Summary: Governor from 20 Feb ...

Messages home from British Army and WRNS personnel in India to their loved ones in the Bournemouth district. The location is Malabar Hill, Bombay and several soldiers, including a WRNS, send messages. Many refer to demob and coming home soon.

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Unedited record, variably exposed and framed, shows Indian Army troops of 59 Rajputana General Purpose Transport Company of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC) queuing for rations and on parade during the visit of their ruler (not visible) to ...

I. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT- 'LATEST NEWS.' An item covering the first official visit of King Ibn Saud of Arabia to King Farouk of Egypt. King Ibn Saud's royal yacht Marusa arrives at Suez. King Farouk, Egyptian Premier, Fahmy Mahmud el-Nokrashy Pasha, and ...

I. 'INDIA.' Panoramic footage shows the rugged terrain of the Kashmir Valley. River traffic threads its way past moored houseboats in the Indian holiday resort of Srinagar. A houseboat has a sign reading "Dental Surgeon" attached to it. A Srinagar ...

I. 'WINTER SPORTS.' Panoramic footage shows skiers on the snow covered slopes of Mount Kosciusko in New South Wales (Australia). Extended footage shows civilians skiing on the slopes of the ski resort. Children fall over in the snow during ski ...

I. 'IVORY.' Ivory tusks taken from Indian elephants are stacked on the floor of an ivory workshop in London. A male factory worker cuts the tusks with an electric jig in the first stage of the production of ivory handles for brushes, combs and hand- ...

I. 'BURMA.' Indian Army officers and a Roman Catholic missionary discuss plans for rebuilding a damaged mission school in the environs of Toungoo in central Burma. A Roman Catholic priest points out the structural works needed to restore a brick- ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' Princess Elizabeth visits Bedford, where she reviews a parade of the Women's Land Army (WLA). The commentary stresses the continuing contribution of the agricultural workers to the nation's well-being while the "food situation ...

I. 'TRANSJORDAN TREATY SIGNED.' Emir Abdullah of Transjordan arrives in Britain by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Avro York airliner for the signing of the newly renegotiated Anglo-Transjordanian treaty and is met by Lord Carrington. The ...

I. 'WORLD'S LARGEST AIRCRAFT.' An unliveried Avro Tudor II airliner is rolled out of a hangar for its maiden flight (March 10 1946). The commentary outlines the aircraft's dimensions and performance specifications over views of the parked and chocked ...