An impression of London's West End in wartime.

A soldier in a Far East posting explains to his mate the special significance of Piccadilly to a Londoner. The film cuts to the Underground and people making their way ...

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Dunford records naval scenes while serving on HMS Verdun in 1945, passage to Oslo in 1945 as naval escort for King Haakon returning to Norway, then naval and shore scenes in Malta, Ceylon (HMS Mayina), Singapore, ...

Amateur film taken by an unknown British cameraman of the victory parade by 23rd Indian Division of the Indian Army, comprising 1 Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier R C M King), 37 Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier N Macdonald) and 49 Indian ...

Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland.

Notes

Summary: Delivery note inside can and dated 26 November 1945 indicates film was sent by O.C. 13 Section AKS to County Welfare Officer, Dundee ( ...

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Brighton and Hastings areas. Canteen scenes

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in Brighton, Haywards Heath, Newhaven and Hastings (Sussex).

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in Brighton.

REEL 1- KASHMIR NO 1 - EARLY SPRING. Srinagar:- 1st Bridge, Hotel Road, Nedou's Hotel, Golf Course at back of hotel, houseboats Chenar Bagh (garden). English church vicarage and garden. Almond, cherry, pear and peach blossom. Magnolia, forsythia. Up ...

A British man, two Burmese women and children standing outside building. A British man holding a small child. Shots of the women and children, a dog walks out of the building. A group of Indian and Anglo- ...

A Burmese man weightlifting. A shot of Shwedagon temple. Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) walks amongst pigeons in the grounds of the temple. Logging on the river, men ...

Amateur film of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten taking the salute of the representative services at the Naval Review, Rangoon (17 ...

Close-up of Lord Mountbatten taking the salute at the Victory Parade, Rangoon, 15 June 1945.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Technical: original/copy ...

This amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson appears to be reconstructed scenes of BNA exercises in the jungle.

Two Burmese soldiers, one plays the bugle. Burma National Army ( ...

Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...

A DC3/C47 taking off from an airstrip and landing again. A group of Bhuddist monks (sayadaws).

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Technical: film marked " ...

Horses are led passed crowd at racecourse. Lord and Lady Dorman-Smith present silver bowl to Indian racehorse owner ? and British officer. Brief shot of the Dorman-Smiths taking their seats, along with several British ...

Funeral of Sawbwa (ruler) of Hsipaw state, in the Northern Shan States of Burma, with parade by Gurkha Battalion (8th ?) who fire volley over coffin. Also scenes of gambling, presumably ...

Burmese men buy longyis (traditional Burmese sarongs) from a stall. A Burmese woman brings a new born baby for a (Burmese?) military doctor to examine. Burmese men fill sacks with rice? in the background is ...

Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.

Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...

Aerial views of a river and surrounding jungle in Burma. View of the river from a hillside. A Burmese man (possibly near Myitkyina, Kachin?) walks towards the camera through a wooded area. Views of the ...

The first soldier wears a beret with metal cap badge, his shoulder flash is of two (white) crossed keys on a black background, the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Division. ...

A Japanese man (in military-style clothing) attempts to open a damaged safe? amongst the rubble in Hiroshima. A British naval officer (possibly Hodgkinson's friend Frank Worth) climbs a stairway. He looks ...

Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while ...

Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.

Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at ...

Offcuts? of amateur film of oilfields in Burma (possibly the Yenangyaung oilfields?).

Brief shot of a British man. Oil wells, some close-ups of the machinery.

Notes ...

The Burma Rifles presenting arms. A brief shot of two naval officers and sailor. The Burmese Naval Reserves? on parade. Burmese Army? on parade (red shoulder flash with white five-point star). Close-up on ' ...

An Indian soldier looking through a range finder. A soldier with binoculars in the bush. The two soldiers converse. Another soldier talks into a telephone/radio handset. Scenes of the gunners setting sites, ...

Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.

Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed ...

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten takes the salute of the ...

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the representative ...

Amateur film of the birds and wildlife at the Pidaung Wildlife Sanctuary, Myitkyina, Kachin State, Burma.

A sign for Pidaung railway station (in Roman and Burmese script). ...

Amateur film of scenes in a Burmese village (after an air-raid attack?) reconstructed by Colonel Hodgkinson.

An ox-drawn cart passes two huts, two women stand outside one ...

Offcuts from amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma. Most of the scenes are reconstructions (with the exception of the market scene).

"The Enemy" written in English ...

(Black & White) Shot from a train window along carriages. People hanging out of windows (most waving small pieces of white cloth). Shots of a steep drop to the valley below. The train winds along a hillside track, and ...

High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in ...

Fragment only. Sergeant George Roland ("Roly") Plews, standing beside Gunner Burnell, sends a message home from India to his wife Elsie and his mother in Newcastle, saying he is healthy and has just travelled one thousand miles to record his greeting ...

Messages home from British Army personnel stationed in Burma to their loved ones in the Leicester area. Filmed in a tented field, a group of soldiers take it in turn to present a personal message to their family and friends in England. One man holds ...

I. a. HMS Illustrious and King George V in Sydney Harbour are a "renewed reminder of Britain's naval might. Ornamental guncap sovereigns are fitted to the guns of the latter ship. A Hindu Midshipman on board "gives the Empire touch." Close up ...

I. "Victoria: Land Army girls supply much of Melbourne's food." Girls on horseback and picking onions and peaches.

II. "Sydney: 'Rats of Tobruk' commemorate historic siege." Wreaths are laid at the Cenotaph before a flashback recalls the ...

I. "Britain's fastest plane." View of the Gloster Meteor jet on the ground and in flight.

II. "Burma liberated. British take Rangoon!" (News of the Day). Troops come ashore during an amphibious attack; paratroops land; ...

Home movie shot during the embarkation and landings of Operation Zipper, September, 1945.

This film shows troopships assembling in an unidentified Indian port and Australian and Indian troops ...

Home movie shot during the landings of 'Operation Zipper' and in Malaya, September 1945, repeating much of the coverage of the first reel.

This reel begins on board the troopship having left one of ...

I. 'ALBANIA.' Albanian partisans using captured German equipment pose for photographs next to a sign that reads "Tiran" (Tirana). Panoramic footage shows Tirana and surrounding mountains. Three Royal Air Force (RAF) Handley Page Halifax bomber ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) stand on the deck of a small marine auxiliary vessel used to ferry RN personnel from ship to shore. WRNS members work on the decks of a small ferry vessel (MCI). Film footage ...

I. 'BRIDGE TO VICTORY.' Bailey Bridge panel sections are loaded onto a London Midlands Scottish (LMS) goods car. Footage taken in the interior of a steelworks manufacturing Bailey Bridge parts shows a female factory worker cutting steel girders with ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' HMS Indefatigable is launched down a Clydebank slipway as gathered crowds look on (completed May 5 1944). King George VI is given a tour of Indefatigable in Portsmouth prior to the ship sailing for the Far East. Accompanying ...

I. 'KING FAROUK VISITS BRITISH NAVY.' King Farouk of Egypt visits the Royal Navy (RN) escort carrier HMS Hunter and is shown talking to an unidentified RN Admiral. King Farouk is accompanied by a Royal Egyptian Navy (REN) Yuzbashi/Youzbashi ( ...

I. 'HOLLAND FREED.' Large numbers of Dutch civilians throng the centre of Rotterdam. Dutch civilians ride on Canadian soft-skinned vehicles. Civilians and nuns wave at the camera from the balcony of a Rotterdam hospital. Dutch civilians ride on ...