Squadron Leader Keith Cawdron bids farewell to the villagers of Sindumin as his unit is moved to Labuan prior to return to England.
Squadron Leader Cawdron plays ball with the local children. A long boat arrives at ...
[Compilation tape.] 00.00 Calypso song on war in Anguilla. 03.35 Russian news report (in Russian). 10.28 Censorship Interview - Michael Barratt talks to Dr George Steiner (critic) and Charles Manowitz (producer) about ...
Near Pauktabin in central Burma, 25-pounder field guns fire a barrage.
Various angles of a 25-pounder gun being fired. The battery position is in ...
Gunners of the Royal Artillery take up position by the village of Pinkan, Burma, and prepare to shell Japanese positions.
Ordnance QF 25-pounder ...
A battery of Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns in action in Burma.
A lorry reverses towards a treeline and a 25-pounder gun and limber are hooked ...
Crew of an Ordnance QF 25-pounder field gun prepare emplacements in Kota, Northern Burma.
The guns of the 156th Battery, 178th Field Regiment, ...
25-pounder field guns of 18th Indian Field Battery, 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, are seen shelling the village of Taungup in the Arakan, Burma ...
After stiff fighting for Myitson, 26th Brigade push through ruins towards Mongmit, Northern Burma.
Troops of the 2nd Battalion Royal East Kent ...
Preparations for an attack by British troops on Myitson, North Burma.
Unloading and use of pontoon boats to cross the river by the 26th Brigade, ...
Part 1, shot by Sergeant Benedict: Outside a wooden hut (a command post?) a British brigadier wearing the triangular insignia of 26th Indian Division gets into a jeep with a number ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division participate in a march past in Rangoon, the recently liberated capital of Burma.
Troops of 5th Battalion 9th Jat ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division participate in a march past in Rangoon, the recently liberated capital of Burma.
Troops of 5th Battalion 9th Jat ...
AYY 199-1. 19 Mar. 1942. Firing of 2lb anti-tank guns at a practice shoot in Mena. Gun team in action, gun fired on and off the lorry.
AYY 199-2-1. 7 Mar. 1942. General Auchinleck holds investiture ...
The sports parade of the 2nd and 10th Gurkha Rifles regiment and scenes of animal sacrifice at Shillong, Assam.
Troops of 2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles (4th Indian Infantry Brigade, 26th Indian Division) advancing south after amphibious landings at ...
Aboard the troopship MV Dilwara Indian soldiers of 2nd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment prepare to lead the reoccupation of Singapore.
Troops ...
Reel 17: "Shall Mills, Troops and TPT" Indians practise wrestling. Military encampment. Camel transport train.
Reel 18: "11/4th GR Recruits' PT" Indian recruits do PT and learn rifle drill. (Captain Reed was administrative Commandant of 11/4th ...
Reel 1: "Shall Mills, TPT and Camp". Camel and mule transport. Ambulance truck. Two British officers in solar topees.
Reel 2: "Shall Mills and Tennis, Pishin" (ie Baluchistan). Camel transport. ASD (DSA) on mountainside. Playing tennis. [Film ...
Reel 26: "Pipe band and sports" Indian turbaned troops parade and play pipes. Colonel Hamlin (?, tall bald officer) attends regimental sports day.
Reel 27: "Moplah acrobatics" (ie South India) Muslim men in distinctive white dress perform ...
Reel 8: "Well at Jhak. Shelabagh" (ie Baluchistan) Indians irrigate using cows to draw water from well. Volley ball.
Reel 9: "Srinagar, Kashmir" Tourist scenes of lake and river traffic.
Reel 10: "Barrack building, Wana" (ie Waziristan) ...
(Reel 1) After departing Little Aden from Salerno Camp (Coldstream Barracks), Hughes records northwards journey in protected convoy on road to Dhala in Land Rover with anti-roll bars and plated against land mines. Fair-haired guardsman is seventeen ...
The British 36th Division advances from India into northern Burma and various activities to aid the advance are carried out.
Before the attack on ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Bandsman Mr T A Link of 2nd Battalion Welch Regiment records soldiers of the Battalion dressed up in a variety of mock oriental guises and as Welsh miners parading, playing a rugby match ...
Amateur film with titles shot by Bandsman Mr T A Link of 2nd Battalion Welch Regiment records Bandsman L Brazier posing with Shooting Shield for 1932, soldiers relaxing by swimming pool and playing hockey, "Cush" Howard playing with puppy at Kuldana, ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Bandmaster Mr T A Link of 2nd Battalion Welch Regiment records soldiers outside their barracks and practising high jump and long jump in mountainous district, presumably while Battalion was stationed at Rawalpindi, ...
The 2nd British Division cross the Irrawaddy River in order to carry out the first daylight attack on Japanese positions and to secure and expand the ...
A 2nd Division mobile concert party sets up in Manipur, India, before staging a show for troops of XXXIII Corps.
The camera, in an open area, ...
As 36th Division approaches Mongmit, in northern Burma, troops of 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment advance on the village of Mahlainggon, on the ...
At Tigyaing in northern Burma troops of 36th Division cross the River Irrawaddy.
Men working to convert a boat for use as a vehicle raft; various ...
Film shot in northern Burma, probably in late December 1944, showing a raft being used by 36th Division to convey vehicles across a river, probably the ...
A jeep railway is operated by men of 36th Division near Sahmaw in northern Burma.
A jeep, fitted with railway wheels, stands parked on a railway ...
Part 1: Jeeps with trailers cross a Bailey bridge. A sign reads 'Speeders beware! Mark my words / Wait and see / You'll get caught / Just like me' and gives the speed limit as ...
Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the Hopin area of Northern Burma.
A sign reads ...
Troops of 36th Division advancing through close country somewhere in northern Burma.
Troops of 36th Division advance through tall grass. Men ...
Men of 42 Commando Royal Marines construct defensive positions in Kuwait in expectation of a possible Iraqi attack.
Men of 42 Commando have established a defensive perimeter in the wind-swept desert beyond the main ...
Men of 45 RM Commando are addressed by Major-General Tower before flying out of Khormaksar in RAF Hercules transports.
Royal Marines file past the camera carrying personal arms and kit. CU of General Tower as he ...
ARMY MOBILE NEWS TEAM SHOTLIST
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01-00-30-00 Mountain bikes, Bengal & dog (Fist) various ...
III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or Moslem women.
IV. Some of the prisoners are ...
Dramatised recruitment film for prospective Royal Navy officers.
1. Prospective recruits (in civvies) are taken onboard HMS Dolphin; sequence focuses on one of the recruits, "Brendon" (a Welshman who gives us his ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Native drivers and British soldiers stand by the bank of the river urging on the long teams of oxen as they draw the guns towards the water (93ft).
Note: This may in fact be NAVAL GUN CROSSING THE VET RIVER ( ...
Medium guns are fired on positions on the road between Pindale and Mahlaing, north of Meiktila, Burma, in support of an infantry attack by 17th Indian ...
The world tour by Edward, Prince of Wales, on board HMS Renown, 1920.
(Reel 1) The Prince, wearing his naval uniform, comes on board HMS Renown at Portsmouth harbour on 14th March, shaking hands with Rear-Admiral Sir ...
Lord Chelmsford presenting colours to the 5th Calcutta battalion.
I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men working the winch and then carrying road bearers past the camera. The camera introduces ...
A sign reads "Tiddim Bye-Pass (sic). Through Traffic". Indian troops with rifles, picks and shovels walk along a jungle-lined road. Jeeps laden with men and supplies drive along ...
Troops of the 5th Indian Division pass through Tiddim, Burma, having taken the town, and move on towards Kennedy Peak.
A General Grant tank passes ...
British soldiers and supplies wait on a rough road. A jeep and trailer come along the road; there is a steep drop on one side of the road and the jeep looks perilously close to the ...