HOSPITALISATION OF EX-PRISONERS OF WAR AT BANGKOK (20/10/1945)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: JFU 418).

Synopsis

Two former prisoners of war, one British and one Indian, receive medical treatment at a hospital in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand).

Naik Qasin Khan seen lying on a hospital bed. A medic fits a needle to a syringe before filling it with a vitamin solution. The patient's arm is swabbed and the injection administered. Medium close-up of the patient's face. A British ex-prisoner, named on the dopesheet as Driver S Burr, receives a serum by intravenous drip with views of the flow valve and glass plasma bottle.

Notes

Dopesheet states that both Driver Burr and Naik Khan had been captured at the fall of Singapore in 1942. Burr (of Howard Road, Bromley, Kent) was part of 18th Division and after being interned at Changi Jail was sent to Thailand in October 1942 to work on the Burma-Siam Railway. Naik Khan (of Chakrala, Mianwali District, Punjab) had been interned at Adam Road before before put to work as a labourer on airfields in Penang, Mergui and Moulmein, escaping in April 1945.

 

Titles

  • HOSPITALISATION OF EX-PRISONERS OF WAR AT BANGKOK (20/10/1945) (Allocated)
Series Title:
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
3 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
183 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
War Office Directorate of Public Relations
cameraman.
Watson, W (Sergeant)
Production company
SEAC Film Unit
 

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