The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp in Singapore, following the liberation of ...
The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp in Singapore, following the liberation of ...
A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the United States Army Air Force arrives at Kallang Airport, Singapore, to evacuate American internees.
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A variety of scenes from Singapore, including a Chinese victory parade, looting at the docks and a performance by a Royal Marine band for inmates at ...
Before the formal Japanese surrender ceremony in Singapore, surrendered Japanese troops clean up the city while freed Allied prisoners and local ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.
Walking cases get into ...
British troops of 3rd Special Service Brigade land unopposed on a beach on Akyab Island (Sittwe), in the Arakan region of Burma.
A flotilla of ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by air from Kallang airport.
Group of freed prisoners ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity at Changi Jail in Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.
Crowd of freed ...
The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp in Singapore, following the liberation of ...
Internees climbing a gangway to board HMS Sussex. Reverse angle showing same. Civilian ex-internees (on the flag deck?) with a Royal Navy signaller. Internees looking at a six- ...
Recently liberated Allied prisoners of war and internees are shown around the Royal Navy London Class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex, and seen in hospital ...
Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while Admiral Lord Louis ...
Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while Lord Louis Mountbatten ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted by a Japanese ...
Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war ...
Brigadier R G Collingwood, commander of 33rd Brigade (7th Indian Division) holds a conference of officers on the eve of the crossing of the Irrawaddy ...
Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, addresses an audience of troops on the subject of ...
Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon, Burma ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.
Human chain of Japanese ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.
Japanese troops shovelling a ...
Party of Japanese medical orderlies wearing gauze face masks. Two Japanese with notebooks; one of them is making notes. Medics disinfecting their hands. A Malay labourer, very thin ...
Record footage showing examples of Japanese propaganda circulated in Batavia (Jakarta) during their occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia ...
Troops of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment and the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles cross the Irrawaddy River ...
Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles (63rd Brigade, ...
Lawson and Harcourt at Stanley internment camp where they meet Reverend Sandbach, the superintendent of the camp. They walk through the camp. They leave the camp's hospital ...
Marine Wilson plays the bagpipes to a laughing audience of Chinese children sitting on the bonnet of a jeep. Sweets are handed round; one marine has a kid riding piggyback. A ...
Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, Hong Kong.
The gates of Stanley prison slide open as a lorry carrying suspected ...
Crowd watching from rails at the Royal Turf Club in Bangkok; camera pans to follow the horses. Rear quarter close-up of British spectator. British other ranks of 1st Battalion ...
At Bangkok jail suspected Japanese war criminals are paraded in front of ex-prisoners of war and internees in order for them to be identified.
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Interned Japanese civilians and troops are put to work in Singapore, now reoccupied by the Allies.
Various views of Japanese civil internees at ...
162 members of the Kempeitai, the Japanese secret police, are jailed at Taiping in Perak, Malaya.
Column of Japanese marching through Taiping with ...
A fire blazes at the petrol dump of Kallang Airport, Singapore, and firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
Large petrol fire burning at night ...
A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at Myebon, Burma, after he was captured and left for dead by the ...
Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet officers of Force 136 (Special Operations ...
British troops of 5th Parachute Brigade round up the Japanese garrison of Singkep Island, off Sumatra south of Singapore, who are transported by sea to ...
'T for Tommy', a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron tasked with delivering rice to Kuantan in Malaya, is seen beached after crashing ...
Following the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron, delivering rice to the people of Kuantan, Malaya, a second Sunderland arrives ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord ...
The first batch of freed civilian internees leave Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, and are evacuated by the Royal Australian Navy Bathurst Class corvette HMAS ...
HMS Glengyle, an infantry landing ship carrying men of 3 Commando Brigade, makes its way towards Hong Kong.
View aboard Glengyle with men of 3 ...
A captured Japanese machine gun is evaluated by British troops for record purposes at Pauktabin, Burma.
A Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun, ...
Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to Pearl Hill Jail.
Japanese ...
After disturbances between the Vietnamese and French population of Saigon, French Indo-China (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) a section of Gurkhas mount a ...
Wide shot showing Lieutenant-General Roberts' staff car arriving outside the Suleiman Building in Kuala Lumpur. He meets the officer commanding. Troops on parade. He meets the ...
Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, visits troops of 7th Parachute Battalion in Singapore ...