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 ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilcox: High and wide shot from the Kallang terminal building; an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft is taxiing. Dakota with reception committee and ...
The Governor-General of Malaya, Malcolm MacDonald, arrives at Changi airport Singapore.
MacDonald is greeted at Changi. He receives a salute. He ...
Pan American flying boat "Anzac Clipper" escorted by Brewster Buffaloes lands on the water at Singapore Civil Airport and taxies away. Alfred and Lady Diana Duff Cooper leave the plane, followed by Mr ...
British, American, Indian and Chinese personnel released from Japanese captivity in Rangoon arrive by hospital ship in Calcutta.
A stretcher ...
RAF Regiment guard of honour presenting arms at Kallang airport. Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, takes the salute. Mountbatten and senior officers. ...
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 Godfrey Huggins, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, visits Richard Casey and the 237 Rhodesian Squadron, RAF at El Daba. The Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Colonel Day leave ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, ...
View from the steps of the Municipal Building as Gimson's car draws up and he gets out. Troops and spectators at the top of the steps; Gimson leaves and descends the steps. He ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India, arrives in the Arakan, Burma
Earl of Munster arriving at an RAF station where he is met by ...
DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour Exchange.
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of 100 Brigade, 20th Indian Divison at Myinmu, ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese positions as support for ...
RAMC training film made at 33 General Hospital, Hong Kong, in 1956.
This silent RAMC training film demonstrates the IPPR system for managing bulbar palsy which is a great advance over conventional 'Iron lung' methods ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
Construction of settlements on the island during the early 1960s.
Reel 1. The farm on Green mountain. Cows being moved within the farm. View of Sisters Peak from Mountain Road. West Indian steel band and dancing. Power House plant ...
Documentary about the Ascension Island and its wildlife, and how the latter has adapted since the Island became a military base.
Supply base scenes
The reel shows: arrival at Ascension Island by Nimrod, the setting up of and scenes in tented and temporary accommodation, troops cleaning weapons, the surrounding landscape, a ...
Supply base scenes.
Continuing from the previous film (ADM 4824), this reel shows: extensive footage of rifle firing practice (by the SAS, apparently), assembling a mobile stove and cooking ...
Supply activities at Ascension Island prior to the arrival of the task force en route to the Falklands.
The reel opens with a Sea King taking off at the air base at Ascension Island Aerial, and ...
Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.
Scenes around the base at Ascension Island with Falklands survivors (?).
Shots show Victor tanker aircraft parked, and a cargo ship anchored out to sea with a helicopter carrying supplies. A launch ...
DOCUMENTARY: Destroyer ship "H.M.S. Ashanti" makes her maiden voyage to Ashanti, the country after which she has been named.
Credits (31), waves, coastline of the Gold Coast, map of Africa showing Ashanti (62), markets (77) naval ...
Looks at the Asian Arts Festival in Hong Kong which features the practice of traditional theatrical, musical and dance acts.
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of African soldiers.
A British soldier stands by the roadside ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
African soldiers, ...
Tribeswoman with baby on her back, hut on top of steep hillside. Villagers (the Puroiks (Sulungs)? in Assam), cockerel, exotic flowers, leaf insect, green snake, cutting trees, building hut, fire, cutting logs, making ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. The remains of ammunition boxes lie around a still smoldering pile. ...
Short film shot by an Indian cameraman ...
Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, on duty in Malaya: girls operating switchboard, office workers, girls playing tennis, relaxing in sitting room and attending a lecture on Malayan geography.
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...
Concerted attacks by the RAF and British Army on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma are seen both from the air and from the ground.
Airborne view ...
A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on Kennedy Peak, Burma, by 5th Indian ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and scenes after its capture.
Footage taken ...
As troops of 2nd Division advance towards Ywathitgyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, field and medium artillery provide support, along with heavy ...
