Prior to his recent death in an air crash, General Orde Wingate receives SEAC Commander Mountbatten at his training base in India for Chindit operations behind Japanese lines in Burma.
Prior to his recent death in an air crash, General Orde Wingate receives SEAC Commander Mountbatten at his training base in India for Chindit operations behind Japanese lines in Burma.
"ENGLISH GIRL WINS TABLE TENNIS TITLE". Table tennis competition at Wembley. Jean Nichol wins. Bergman of Austria wins men's English title.
"HITLER'S SPEECH REASSURES WORLD". In Berlin, Adolf Hitler addresses audience on the ...
An account of a typical days work by an English policeman in a provincial city - Leicester.
Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently liberated from Japanese captivity at Rangoon jail, are seen boarding a ship at Rangoon docks for evacuation to ...
START 10:45:42 Mr Robinson, a British settler living in Limuru near Nairobi, strolls out of his farm house onto the lawn, lights up a cigarette and surveys his property from the garden fence. He is joined by his wife and together they return to the ...
Amateur film shot by Medical Officer of the Boundary Commission. Shows British Colonial Officials travelling to Somaliland via Marseilles, Malta and the Suez Canal and arrival in Berbera. Shows camel racing with the Camel Corps and the ...
Amateur film of British Somaliland taken by Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester. Pan of Berbera. Burco, the headquarters of the Camel Corps. Troops seen exercising. A watering hole. Activities of the natives. Arrival at Malta on the journey ...
Amateur film of scenes at Burao in Somaliland (headquarters of the Camel Corps), Grand Harbour Valletta (Malta) and the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester on board HMS Suffolk in Yokohama Harbour to invest Emperor Hirohito with the The Most Noble ...
Red and white flag of the Indonesian republic flying. Graffiti reads 'Freedom the glory of any nation'. Small pieces of paper on a wall read 'Our government is a government from ...
As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...
British guns and forces on the Salonika Front, probably early 1917.
An Indian mountain battery with 10-pounder mountain guns. A British 2.75-inch mountain gun (?) dug in on a hillside under scrim netting. ...
British troops of ...