RIN depot ship lies at mooring buoy in estuary with Fairmile B MLs alongside to port and starboard. Cut to interior CUs of flotilla briefing - a Lieutenant-Commander pricks a chart while his junior captains ...
MS off the starboard beam of a small merchantman steaming in a calm sea, and pan left to Oerlikon position on cameraship as it fires off a few rounds. XLS of escorting sloop - a depth charge (?) explodes astern ...
Two Indian men, one holds a long handled axe, the other a rifle. Close-up of a man posing with a pistol. Close-up of part of a hand-made rifle? Close-up of a man demonstrating a pistol. Another close-up of the hand-made ...
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese occupation.
Views of civilians and troops observing ...
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese occupation.
Senior officers and other dignitaries ...
Scenes from a commemorative parade and wreath laying at the Cenotaph in Singapore on Armistice Day, 1945.
Troops on parade. A group of senior ...
In Hong Kong the first Armistice Day ceremony is held since the British reoccupation of the territory, with the General Officer Commanding, General Festing, in attendance.
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Scenes in the interior of two Armoured Control Vehicles near Medjez El Bab.
Panning shot from a radio operator receiving a message to the operator handing the message to ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP practice and maps showing India's far-flung strategic frontiers (Egypt to Singapore) suggests the sort of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
