General Leese (Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia) and General Rees (General Officer Commanding 19th Indian Division) observe the ...

HMS Glengyle, an infantry landing ship carrying men of 3 Commando Brigade, makes its way towards Hong Kong.

View aboard Glengyle with men of 3 ...

Artillery and infantry of 123 Brigade, 5th Indian Division, on the road to Toungoo (Taungoo), Burma, 140 miles north of Rangoon.

Self-propelled ...

Troops of 71st Brigade, 26th Indian Division, XV Corps enter Kyauktan (south west of Rangoon) and recently liberated Allied prisoners are seen at ...

I. Reel One. Evacuation of British and Commonwealth prisoners of war from Hainan. Onboard a British cruiser, Captain RN talks with a small group of US officers - a Japanese officer is in attendance, looking ...

I. Sequence shot from a Ruler Class escort carrier entering Hong Kong bay - possibly HMS Smiter.

II. HMS Duke of York enters Sydney harbour. HA onto focsle while at sea - men are laid out untidily, ...

Stretcher cases are taken up gangway onto hospital ship HMS Gerusalemme. Two men go up unaided - one shakes the hand of a naval lieutenant who has accompanied him to the foot of the gangway. Cut to interior of ...

A mobile column of motorised infantry and tanks drives to Ambarawa in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to evacuate Dutch civilian internees to ...

I. Landing at Surabaya of 49th Indian Brigade, 25 October, 1945. LS broad on the starboard quarter of the Japanese torpedo boat Kiji at sea. Cameraship and companion pass through line of blockships, passing ...

Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by air from Kallang airport.

Group of freed prisoners ...

Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.

Walking cases get into ...

Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity at Changi Jail in Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.

Crowd of freed ...

With the British reoccupation of Singapore, prisoners of war evacuated by ambulances from camps to waiting hospital ships, and Japanese troops are made to clean up the city ...

After being cut off by Japanese forces from the rest of the British force northeast of Letmauk, Burma, for two weeks the 2nd Brigade 82nd West African ...

Record footage showing examples of Japanese propaganda circulated in Batavia (Jakarta) during their occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia ...

At Kyaukse, south of Mandalay on the road to Meiktila, Indian troops of 80th Indian Infantry Brigade (20th Indian Division) occupy the town.

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As 14th Army advances across the Shwebo plain in Burma, British troops of 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (32nd Indian Infantry Brigade, 20th ...

Troops of 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment (33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division) enter Myingyan, a town on the River Irrawaddy in Burma ...

Indian troops of 17th Indian Division, supported by the fire of a battery of self-propelled 105mm guns, enter the town of Pegu 50 miles from Rangoon, ...

Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages of the 15th Indian Corps' advance through the Arakan peninsula, and parachute supply drops to units in the jungle ...

Amateur travel film.

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Farewell to India 1945. Home, Cheam, Brother David's wedding, Nellie, 1952. Christening of John A. Jewell (nephew)

A film which contrasts the old and the new outlooks in Kenya. An elder of a coastal village has a son serving in a minesweeper who returns home on leave but soon finds himself in conflict with his father's superstition and faith in magic. ...

Footage showing the feeding of the poor as part of the Buddhist Festival of Lights in Rangoon, shortly after the resumption of British civil ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, recently returned Governor of Burma, attends a ceremonial feeding of the poor as part of the Buddhist Festival of Lights in ...