The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp ...

Scenes after the reoccupation of Rangoon including a march past of troops, church service of thanksgiving, and landing ...

British servicemen go riding in Darjeeling, Bengal Province, India.

A mountain range shrouded with cloud. Five British servicemen ride ...

Troops of 19th Indian Division lay on a special party for children, recently released from Japanese internment, in ...

Troops of 19th Indian Division lay on a special party for children, recently released from Japanese internment, in ...

A military mission from Siam (Thailand) arrives at the headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia ...

Scenes from recently-liberated Singapore, including aerial views of the harbour, Japanese internees being put to work and the ...

Sir Harold MacMichael, former High Commissioner for Palestine and now the King's special representative, arrives in Malaya before ...

Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, arrives at Kallang airport ...

Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits a forward airfield on the Mandalay Front, Burma.

Air Marshal ...

Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong with his ...

Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits Rangoon, Burma.

RAF ensign flying from a flagpole. Air Marshal ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, newly appointed commander of 14th Army, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield in Rangoon, ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.

At an ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in ...

Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots ...

Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.

Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry ...

A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) ...

A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a ...

Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from ...

Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt ...

Short section of footage of a railway locomotive for 'So This Is India'.

A train steams towards camera and ...

Scenes of a Roman Catholic Mass held in a pagoda at Sadaung, Burma.

Pagoda spires. Several takes of an ...

Spitfires of RAF 132 Squadron operate at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and adopt two local Chinese ...

Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.

Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...

Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.

Two British officers are saluted ...

Supplies are dropped from a Dakota to a forward Army division, and local Burmese villagers are employed to ...

RAF Supermarine Spitfires of RAF 155 Squadron escort Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General ...

The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Mandalay, Burma, with other senior ...

The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division, probably ...

The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division.

A jeep marked ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, ...

The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, makes a tour of inspection of ...

On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division ...

Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, ...

British troops seen coming ashore at Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), on parade and taking over Glugor seaplane base from ...

Infantry of 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles (99th Brigade, 17th Indian Division) supported by tanks, attack a Japanese ...

Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of ...

Following the capture of Myingyan, north of Meiktila, Burma, Sherman tanks and infantry work together to flush out ...

Just to the rear of the fighting area in Taungtha, north-west of Meiktila, Burma, 5th Indian Division Recovery ...

Tanks and infantry of 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, supported by aircraft, overcome unexpected Japanese resistance at the ...

Gurkha infantry of 63rd Brigade, supported by tanks and aircraft, attack a Japanese position at Payagyi, ten miles ...

Sherman medium tanks of 255th Indian Tank Brigade being used to consolidate 7th Division's bridgehead over the Irrawaddy ...

Scenes of peasant agriculture and Buddhist temple bells near Mandalay, Burma.

Burmese peasant farmers thresh grain using bullocks to ...

At Thanbyuzayat camp in Burma Asian forced labourers receive food, clothing and medical attention from the Civil Affairs ...

The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' (REME) Light Aid Detachment of 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery ...

Tanks and men from 255th Armoured Brigade and 17th Indian Division spearhead the advance across the Irrawaddy River ...