I. "WELCOME HOME JAWAN". Indian troops from the Middle East arrive back in Karachi. II. "FAREWELL TO GENERAL WHEELER". U.S. Commander in the India-Burma theatre bids farewell to his many friends at New Delhi airport after ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to six major cities of India. II. "SIR SULTAN AHMED RESIGNS FROM INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING". On the eve of ...
I. "CIVIL ADMINISTRATION RESTORED IN BURMA" Propaganda film to mark the restoration of Britain's civil administration in Burma after three years of Japanese rule. The arrival of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the Governor of ...
I. "BOMBAY FETES JOHN GIELGUD". The world famous Shakespearean actor visits the Information Files of India and the Rajkamal Kalamandir Studios where he is received by Shantarem, India's leading film director. II. "WORLD ...
I. "5,000 INDIANS REPATRIATED FROM RABAUL". Britain's aircraft carrier 'Formidable' enters Bombay Harbour, carry 1,200 Indian soldiers recently freed from the Japanese prison camp of Rabaul. II. "Rs. 300,000/- FOR THE KAMALA ...
I. "THE KASHMIR SEASON ENDS". A Newsparade cameraman visits the Kashmir Valley. II. "LORD ALANBROOKE'S VISIT TO INDIA". Lord Alanbrooke is greeted on arrival by Admiral Mountbatten and General Auchinleck. At Lahore he ...
I. "BENGAL'S FOOD SITUATION SURVEYED. ARMY CONTRIBUTES TRANSPORTATION". Sir J.P. Srivastava, Food Member and Mr. Casey, Governor of Bengal, tour eastern and western Bengal to review the food position in the province. II. " ...
I. "INDIAN NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL ON TOUR IN BURMA". Four members of the Indian National Defence Council went across to Rangoon for a twelve-day tour of Indian formations in Burma. II. "REPATRIATION OF INDIAN TROOPS ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN XI'S FAREWELL TEST MATCH". At Madras, the Indian XI beat the visitors by six wickets. II. "INDIA GOES TO THE POLLS". Indians cast their votes in the Central Assembly elections, for the first time in eleven ...
I. "RACING SEASON OPENS AT THE ARAKAN TURF CLUB" Racing scenes at the Arakan Turf Club, Burma. Gordon Richards features among the jockeys. Queues of soldiers waiting at paying out windows and later running into the sea ...
I. "THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT" Scenes of Americans enjoying rodeo scenes at a grandstand involving horses, mules, bulls and lassoing. In Bombay, Canadian troops look after Indian "orphans" at a Christmas party featuring Father ...
I. "CEYLON WELCOMES A NEW GOVERNOR" Accompanied by his wife, Sir Henry Moore arrives in Ceylon as Governor and representative of the King, thirty four years after being a young civil servant. Moore meets civilian members of ...
I. "SANTINIKETAN - THE ABODE OF PEACE" "Famous people" attend the 43rd anniversary of the Ashram, founded by the father of the great poet Tagore". A plaque in Chinese "tells how the place has become world-famous". Scenes of ...
I. "PUBLICISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR INDIA'S FAITH AND CONFIDENCE" Mr Bozman holds meeting of the Publicity Advisory Committee as " a simple guide to what to say in wartime". Commentary also notes that "there is always someone to ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, arrives by flying boat to meet troops.
View from a beach or ...
At Kai Tak airfield in Kowloon a China National Aviation Corporation transport aircraft (a Douglas Dakota) taxis; the camera follows to show a waiting RAF guard of honour. Field ...
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), arrives in Singapore for a tour of inspection, and visits a number of infantry ...
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), arrives in Singapore for a tour of inspection.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Singapore after transferring his headquarters from Kandy in Ceylon (Sri ...
Following the Allied reoccupation, engineers of the Japanese army and navy dismantle an anti-aircraft gun at Hong Kong.
Japanese engineers (some ...
At an investiture at Government House, Singapore, Major-General Thomas Terry US Army presents medals to Lieutenant-General Messervy and other British ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, Major-General George Symes presents a Japanese sword to the men of HMS Jamaica.
Symes inspects men of HMS Jamaica. ...
Australian soldiers of 1st Parachute Battalion lay on a Christmas party for children, both local and from a nearby camp of freed Dutch internees, in ...
On Christmas Day 1945 a party of around 70 Dutch and Chinese children are welcomed aboard the Royal Navy Harbour Repair Ship HMS Assistance, anchored ...
At Kinta, near Ipoh in Perak, Malaya, troops of the 3rd Madras Regiment Machine Gun Battalion lay on a children's party for local Tamil children, ...
A section of infantry from 17th Dogra Machine Gun Battalion conduct a patrol of villages in the vicinity of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja), Java, ...
Japanese Lieutenant-Colonel Kazuo Kogi is taken to the site of a massacre in Hong Kong in 1943 in which he is accused of being involved.
Prison ...
Motorcyclists, mostly despatch riders of 12th Army Signals, compete in a cross-country motorcycle trial at Mingaladon, near Rangoon, Burma.
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At the villages of Manong and Bekor near Kuala Kangsar in Perak, Malaya, troops of 25th Indian Division round up suspected bandits.
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After the capture of Gangaw, East African troops advance towards the River Irrawaddy, Burma, while gunners go into action and RAF Hurricanes attack a ...
Reel 1: A file of Indian troops of (probably 14th Battalion) 13th Frontier Force Rifles, seen in silhouette, walks towards the shore of the River Irrawaddy; the sun is low on the ...
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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With the British reoccupation of Singapore, Indian prisoners of war at Serangoon Road camp receive food and medical attention.
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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 ...
Reel 1: Pan along a line of Indian Sikh troops cleaning their Ordnance ML 3-inch mortars. A three-man mortar team stands by their weapon, which a captain comes and inspects. ...
At Mokpalin in southern Burma, the remnants of the Japanese 53rd Division surrender to 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, of 17th Indian Division.
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Shot on 3 March 1945: Indian infantry of a battalion of the Frontier Force (probably 9th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles) advancing towards the village of Nagthayauk; they ...
In order to speed the surrender of Japanese forces at Ramree town (on Ramree Island in the Arakan region of Burma) Royal Indian Navy (RIN) landing ...
START 00:00:00 Views of the railway siding at Thanbyuzayat, the start of the Burmese section of the 'Death Railway' showing open waggons and boxcars (used as temporary accommodation) in the siding; in the background, Japanese soldiers unload ...
An armoured column known as Stiletto Force of 19th Indian Division advances towards Mandalay, Burma's second city.
A queue of motor vehicles, ...
With the reoccupation of Malaya British and Indian signallers of the Royal Corps of Signals and Indian Army Signal Corps work to restore communcations by both fixed telephone ...
In Hong Kong the first Armistice Day ceremony is held since the British reoccupation of the territory, with the General Officer Commanding, General Festing, in attendance.
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After six years service in India on internal security duties, troops of the Bhairab Nath battalion of the Nepalese Army return to Kathmandu.
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Shot by Lieutenant Hayat: Uneven and dark footage of troops walking along a road. View of the distant Mandalay Hill with bare trees in the foreground; troops (probably 8th ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits No. 4 Squadron Indian Air Force on Ramree Island off Burma's Arakan coast ...
At Thabeikkyin artillery and aircraft provide cover as troops of 19th Indian Division cross the River Irrawaddy, Burma.
View from high ground ...
In Mandalay, Burma's second city, the stronghold of Fort Dufferin is pounded by air attacks and after the fall of the fort, the divisional commander ...
Footage of the bombardment of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma, as seen from Mandalay Hil.
View of Fort Dufferin with raised dust. Long lens ...
