RIN depot ship lies at mooring buoy in estuary with Fairmile B MLs alongside to port and starboard. Cut to interior CUs of flotilla briefing - a Lieutenant-Commander pricks a chart while his junior captains ...
MS off the starboard beam of a small merchantman steaming in a calm sea, and pan left to Oerlikon position on cameraship as it fires off a few rounds. XLS of escorting sloop - a depth charge (?) explodes astern ...
Documentary. An Akyab tour - Burma.
A boat unloading small parcels and two men onto a small boat alongside. The arrival of a motor boat and British officials on a visit to a temple. Andrew Bay At Sadaway. A flying boat taking off. Inspection of ...
Shots of Area Commanders leaving the building after meeting at HAFMED Headquarters, Floriana, Malta.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records ...
Military footage filmed during the occupation, showcasing exclusively Argentine hardware and activities; extended montage against a background of martial music. Also shots of the ...
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage raft and travel upstream towards the Murchison Falls, filming the wildlife that they encounter. They spend time ...
Two Indian men, one holds a long handled axe, the other a rifle. Close-up of a man posing with a pistol. Close-up of part of a hand-made rifle? Close-up of a man demonstrating a pistol. Another close-up of the hand-made ...
Amateur film shot by Doctor Gordon Thompson, a Church Missionary Society medical missionary working at the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research in Shanghai (1927-1937), records ceremony of Armistice Day in Hong Kong, where Colonial Governor ...
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese occupation.
Views of civilians and troops observing ...
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese occupation.
Senior officers and other dignitaries ...
Scenes from a commemorative parade and wreath laying at the Cenotaph in Singapore on Armistice Day, 1945.
Troops on parade. A group of senior ...
In Hong Kong the first Armistice Day ceremony is held since the British reoccupation of the territory, with the General Officer Commanding, General Festing, in attendance.
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Scenes in the interior of two Armoured Control Vehicles near Medjez El Bab.
Panning shot from a radio operator receiving a message to the operator handing the message to ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP practice and maps showing India's far-flung strategic frontiers (Egypt to Singapore) suggests the sort of ...
START 10:00:00 An African motorcycle despatch rider (DR) motors past the camera during manoeuvres in Kenya or Madagascar. Wearing steel helmets, African soldiers serving with the King's African Rifles (KAR) make their way through dried-up bushes with ...
An exercise involving the transport of army units to a brief 'action' in the Middle East briefly portrayed to exemplify the British Army's rle.
Troops of the Army's Strategic Reserve ...
32nd Army (Blood) Transfusion Unit work at a forward airfield to save the lives of soldiers from IV Corps wounded in action.
Blood donated in ...
Army Video Diary for October 1996, with footage provided by the Army Mobile News Teams for the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Germany.
Items include operations in ...
AMATEUR FILM. IAC leader. `En route at Khartoum': loading and boarding plane; Salisbury; street scenes; flower market; bowling green; `Astor' fountain; chauffeur driven car, CU black driver. `Mazoe Citrus Estate, Langford House': exterior of ...
Scenes from Hong Kong including: Shatin Valley; Christian Buddhist temple; rice fields; on the Taipo Road, including scenes at the train station; Tolo Harbour; Chinese country houses; a Chinese temple garden; Shing Mun reservoir; ruins of a walled city ...
Vice-Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, commander British Pacific Fleet, arrives in Hong Kong.
Boyd steps ashore from an admiral's barge and is greeted by ...
Australian troops and nurses arrive by hospital ship at Singapore. Medical stores are unloaded and crates of Canadian Ford equipment, addressed to the Minister of Supplies, Singapore. The men and nurses ...
Tanks and troops at Port Tewfik, Egypt.
Anti-tank guns being towed away by trucks. Labourers at work on dockside. Valentine Mark III tanks running onto tank transporters ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian Division.
French troops ...
