I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' Very large civilian crowds gather at York for the first St Leger horse race held since the cessation of hostilities. Large numbers of civilian cars stand in the racecourse car park as a result of the recent reintroduction of ...

I. 'SINGAPORE.' The official Japanese surrender in Singapore (September 12 1945). Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives by open-tourer and inspects a Royal Navy guard of honour who present arms with Lee-Enfield Mk III .303-inch rifles. Mountbatten is shown ...

I. 'ROYAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND.' Princess Elizabeth visits a Girl Guide rally held in Glasgow, Scotland. Princess Elizabeth has Girl Guides dance around her to the appreciation of the three thousand strong audience. The Princess later makes a short ...

I. 'BURMA.' Burmese forestry workers cut teak on the banks of the Chindwin River. Teak planking is loaded onto the back of waiting Dodge soft-skinned vehicles. Indian Army engineers construct large wooden river barges on the banks of the Chindwin. ...

I. 'THE FAR EAST- THE AFTERMATH.' Hundreds of Imperial Japanese Army officers surrender their swords in Malaya. Large numbers of Japanese Army personnel stand in a prison enclosure. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war march past gathered Malay ...

I. 'NEWS FROM THE FAR EAST.' A British soft-skinned vehicle arrives at a Hong Kong prison compound carrying suspected Japanese war criminals. A Royal Marine stands guard over the prisoners in the compound holding a Thompson M1928 .45-inch sub-machine ...

I. 'PERSONALITY PARADE.' A guard of honour drawn from the Arab Legion presents arms on the arrival by car of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke in Transjordan (The Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan). Alanbrooke later inspects a contingent of the Transjordan ...

I. 'NEWS FROM EUROPE.' Children play amongst the rubble and wrecked buildings of Berlin. A pair of children play in the wrecked hulk of a German Army Kfz 1/20 K2 Schwimmwagen amphibious vehicle. Children are relocated from the unsanitary streets of ...

Sequences showing a football match in a city park and water polo in a swimming pool. WRNS disembark from RN trucks. Sequence showing WRNS being taken on a sightseeing trip around crowded anchorage in RCL. Cut ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Christison KBE CB MC leading a planning conference at Division HQ situated at Myebon, Burma

Present at the meeting ...

A record of the Australian Army's Second World War battle honours, compiled shortly before the end of the war.

(Reel 1) Brief sequences establish the character of Australia (youth etc) and the Axis 'plan for world ...

I. "S.E.A.C." a. WAAFs arrive (by ship) in India and, as well as starting new duties, do some sightseeing. b. 'Scots' commentary describes bomber (Liberator and Halifax ?) maintenance in the Burma sector and (after film of take-off, flight and action ...