POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

A boisterous crossing the line ceremony on HMS Warrior off West Africa, and Exercise Shop Window, in which South African military and civilian VIPs are taken onboard to see the ship put through its ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.

Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...

... kit into aircraft. Black US soldier sprays against mosquitos. Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, commanding 6th US Army, meets war correspondents (including Courtenay). Group shot of Lieutenant General Krueger and correspondents. Parked C-47 aircraft. US ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Taken in February 1953. Includes 400ft of Vanguard entering dry dock in Gibraltar.

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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.

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START 00:23:56 Scenes filmed from a vantage point showing Chinese marchers celebrating the end of the war and victory over Japan as they parade through the centre of Hong Kong behind a large portrait of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang-Kai-Shek, ...

... Kong Island during the First Opium War with China (Melson, 1997, 4). The following ... the Empire following the Second World War (Buckley, 1997, 170). Roger Buckley believes ... Britain knew that it could not win a war with China to keep control of the territory ...

... THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

As Britain resumes control of Hong Kong after the surrender of Japan, British, Indian and Canadian prisoners of war are freed, and Japanese troops interned.

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Film not viewed. Catalogued from dopesheet.

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

A swimming gala and bathing beauty contest is held at the Lady Park Club in Hong Kong.

Start of the 100m freestyle. Close-up of the Chinese winner ...

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

Reel 1: Shot looking through a set of gates towards a large white building (probably Government House); a sentry is on duty, traffic passes in the foreground and a Union flag flies ...

... Officer Richard Elliott while serving in Hong Kong records scenes of local life in the British colony, as well as Gurkha tug-of-war, parade by Gurkha bagpipe band and British soldiers on border patrol along the New Territories frontier with the Republic of ...

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

Victory parade and celebrations in Hong Kong after the surrender of Japanese forces and its liberation by British troops.

Navy, Army and RAF ...

... Henry Stephens

03-31-34-00 IV - Chairman Royal British Legion (HK)

The last Remembrance Day Service at Stanley Cemetery in Hong Kong before the handover to China, 11 November 1996; veterans (ex-prisoners of war) are among those attending.