INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia
Somewhere in the Arakan coastal region ...
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... . Small pieces of rock into bucket. Road levelling machine. Most machines driven by Africans who learnt to drive during the war. The finished Nairobi to Limuru road.
'England - Animals from Kenya for London Zoo'. Crowds at London Zoo. Lions in ...
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... Film Unit newsreel, British Empire at War, was primarily produced for African ... were earlier examples during the war – such as An African in London ... .
Smyth, Rosaleen, ‘The Post-War Career of the Colonial Film Unit in ...
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Summary: the identification of this film was made by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback'
Technical: this item is currently held on a single reel ...
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COLONIAL MONTH 1949
... , in the colonies. The film, and the depicted events, seek to enact a form of union that responded to the post-war economic and political situation of the British Empire, endorsing the value of Africa within the Empire (shortly after India had achieved ... -
... at Scapa Flow in February 1941. Up until that point, the battleship's war service had been unspectacular; in December 1939, she struck a ... and saw service in the Far East just before the war against Japan ended in August 1945. HMS Nelson was decommissioned ...
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... British troops during the First World War and the heroism of the boy ... , Kenya’s Contribution to the Allied War Effort shows Africans and ... ).
Lewis, Joanna, Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52 (Ohio ...
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... in orange circles to distinguish them as prisoners-of-war in conversation on the starboard side of the ... . Up until that point, the battleship's war service had been unspectacular; in December ... Far East just before the war against Japan ended in August 1945 ...
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... and Wildcat.
IV. "India/Burma: Activities in Burma." Heavy duty pontoon bridge prepared near Ledo, erected on Irrawaddy. (Reel 2) War Dogs, part of Morris Task Force, eat out of helmets. American mules near Bhamo.
V. "Activities in China." ...
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB
Scenes in and around Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises, Mediterranean 1955.
Combined Fleet formed up prior to entering Grand Harbour. Harbour entrance and Valletta. Firing the Royal Salute ...
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB
HMS Tyne at Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises.
Flag Officers arrive on board HMS Tyne at Grand Harbour, Malta. FO's meeting in C-in-C's Dining cabin.
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB
The Combined Fleets at Gibraltar, March 1954.
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Technical: print badly scratched and has ingrained dirt; damp has destroyed one side of reel.
Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been ...
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