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DOCUMENTARY. The reconstruction of two sea engagements of the First World War - the Battles of the Coronel of 1st November, 1914, and the Battles of the Falkland Islands of 8th December, 1914.

RL.1 In the South Pacific, Sir Charles ...

... has stated that at the outbreak of the War the Indian Army was a &lsquo ... further confusion about how the War cause should be portrayed.

In the USA ... (for example, ‘it is no picnic – it is war!’, said to the accompaniment of a tent ...

... Delhi’s inaugural celebrations were but a requiem for that dream of ordered dominion’ (Irving, 1982, 23). The inter-war period in India was marked by a series of clashes between the British government and Indian nationalists, which by the early ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Watercraft are used to deliver mortar rounds to infantry of 4th Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles (33rd Brigade, 7th Indian Division) and ammunition to 5.5- ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Around Christmas 1944, British troops of 36th Division receive a welcome consignment of airmail in northern Burma.

Douglas Dakota transport ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Airmen of an RAF motor transport waterproofing unit demonstrate techniques for waterproofing vehicles in preparation for amphibious operations ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

In Rangoon, capital of Burma, the ailing Governor Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith departs for England, and Sir Henry Knight arrives to take over.

Knight ...

... nurses dress a woman's leg. A four-day old baby. Gynaecological view of a Chinese woman forced into prostitution during the war and suffering severely from venereal disease. Group of four nurses named on the dopesheet as Tan, Majid, Pahang and Meriam with ...

... of the church, Bechuanaland is still a ‘spiritual desert.’

Not only that, it is ‘a country at war.’ The war in question is in the first instance one between ‘superstition and truth’ (ie. ‘witchdoctors& ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Cecil Bouchier addresses airmen on the occasion of the disbandment of RAF 607 (County of Durham) Squadron at Mingaladon ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

With the surrender of Japan, the guerilla Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) is disbanded.

A saluting base in Kuala Lumpur; pan to MPAJA ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

With the surrender of Japan, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) is disbanded.

Civilian procession with banners, crowd and buildings ...