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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 ...
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 ...