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Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, addresses an ... MP for Chester-le-Street, was appointed Secretary of State for War and was tasked with demobilising Britain's large and ...

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Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, arrives by ... MP for Chester-le-Street, was appointed Secretary of State for War and was tasked with demobilising Britain's large and ...

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

With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.

Human chain of Japanese ...

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

With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.

Japanese troops shovelling a ...

... of this camp as over 1,700 Malay and Javanese labourers, with the sick mostly suffering from dysentry and beri-beri. During the war many thousands of Asian civilians were used as forced labour, known as 'romusha' in Japanese. According to Bayly and Harper ...

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Notes

Dopesheet for this film is undated, but likely date is mid-late September 1945. During the war the Japanese had proclaimed a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and anti-colonial rhetoric and propaganda had been a key ...

... 1945 and was according to the official history 'the longest opposed river crossing in any theatre of the Second World War'. Following a covert reconnaissance by a Sea Reconnaissance Unit and a Special Boat Section, a company of 2nd Battalion, South ...

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

Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles (63rd Brigade, ...

... officers at Flagstaff House.

Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, visits troops ... for Chester-le-Street, was appointed Secretary of State for War and was tasked with demobilising Britain's large ...

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

Marine Wilson plays the bagpipes to a laughing audience of Chinese children sitting on the bonnet of a jeep. Sweets are handed round; one marine has a kid riding piggyback. A ...

... WARGB

Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, ... slide open as a lorry carrying suspected war criminals approaches. The lorry drives ... '.

Stanley jail was a modern, pre-war civil jail and was used ...

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

Crowd watching from rails at the Royal Turf Club in Bangkok; camera pans to follow the horses. Rear quarter close-up of British spectator. British other ranks of 1st Battalion ...