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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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.
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Summary: Governor from 20 Feb ...
