At Government House, Hong Kong, senior Japanese officers surrender the territory to British officers led by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser ...
At Government House, Hong Kong, senior Japanese officers surrender the territory to British officers led by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser ...
Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to Pearl Hill Jail.
Japanese ...
Admirals Harcourt and Fraser, General Festing and Brigadier Hardy, make a tour of inspection of the Hong Kong New Territories, including a trip to an ...
Shot on 29 September 1945: An Avro York transport aircraft taxiing; it has the 'phoenix' badge of the Supreme Allied Commander on its nose. Lawson steps down from the aircraft ...
British troops of 19th Indian Division begin to fight their way into the northern part of the city of Mandalay, Burma.
Troops from the 8th ...
With the surrender of Japan and the Allied reoccupation of Singapore, Japanese civilians and troops are interned and put to work.
Japanese civil ...
British troops of No. 5 Army Commando round up Japanese troops at Fanling, 20 miles from Kowloon, before putting them on a train to an internment camp ...
Surrendered Japanese troops are put to work unloading ships at Kowloon docks near Hong Kong.
Seated Japanese troops; a commando with a Thompson ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian Division.
French troops ...
A young girl suffering from yaws, a tropical bacterial infection, also known as polypapilloma tropicum. Close-up of the girl. A young boy suffering from salds (?). A crowd of ...
Red and white flag of the Indonesian republic flying. Graffiti reads 'Freedom the glory of any nation'. Small pieces of paper on a wall read 'Our government is a government from ...
Views from Mandalay Hill, Burma, of Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns and BL 5.5-inch medium guns shelling Japanese sniper positions in a Buddhist ...
Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of rice are unloaded from a lorry and put aboard a small boat. Close-ups of two ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, accompanied by his wife Edwina, visit areas of Singapore related to the recovery of ...
Sir Harold MacMichael, former High Commissioner for Palestine and now the King's special representative, arrives in Malaya before constitutional talks ...
On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division surrender, while the officers of the division lay down ...
1,403 freed Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees board the RMS Orbita at Rangoon, Burma, for repatriation, and are visited onboard by ...
Two days of continuous rain reduce the roads to a sea of mud, making driving conditions challenging, around Tagaung and Minong, Burma.
Dodge 4x4 ...
Troops of 19th Indian Division have cleared the Japanese from positions at the top of Monastery Hill, Burma, but the Japanese have tunnelled under the ...
Dorman-Smith's car arrives at Rangoon Cathedral and he gets out. Lady Dorman-Smith with the Rt Rev the Lord Bishop of Rangoon. Lieutenant-General Sir Montagu Stopford, commander ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.
Wide shot with ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.
View looking ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.
Fairly dark ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.
Guards lining ...