Amateur film, presumably shot by an officer of the East or South Lancashire Regiment serving in Burma in 1943-1945, shows Kohima Post Office sign by India/Burma frontier, Indian or Burmese hill people and their dwellings, kilted pipers playing slow ...
Reel 1: Two British sappers of 236th Field Company seen up to their waists in the fast-flowing Hopin Chaung (river). A man uses a hand drill. On the riverbank a group of engineers ...
A jeep carrying four men and towing a trailer full of medical supplies pulls up. Two men examine the trailer and the contents. Supplies, including shovels and picks, are are loaded ...
6 April 1944. The British destroyer Echo is formally handed over to the Royal Hellenic Navy and becomes HMHS Navarinon. The ceremony is presided over by Vice Admiral Hamilton. The ship's companies of ...
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret visit HMS King George V at Scapa Flow.
The royal party - HM King George VI, the Queen and Princesses ...
RAF and Royal Navy salvage personnel attempt to recover a sunken Short Sunderland flying boat from the River Brahmaputra at Dibrugarh, Assam, India ...
Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as 'Special Force' or the Chindits) seen returning to ...
START 10:00:15 Filmed from their small fishing boat, Ugandan fishermen cast a net in shallow water on Lake Victoria. A woman purchases fish for cash. Back on shore, teams of fishermen haul in nets and collect flat fish and a local breed of eel (?). A ...
START 10:59:20 Scenes at Kisumu, Kenya's main harbour on Lake Victoria: timber is unloaded onto the quayside by a steam-driven dockside crane from a Lake steamer and African troops from the Belgian Congo embark on board the SS Rusinga, another vessel ...
Activities in an Indian school where the children are taught the elements of agriculture as well as reading and arithmetic.
A senior British officer of 26th Indian Division meets Burmese civilians.
A group of servicemen, presumably Army officers, seen on a verandah of a ...
ACTIVITIES AT THE SERENDAH BOYS' SCHOOL IN MALAYA, FOUNDED BY THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND.
In northern Burma, ...
18 Aug 1944. American and British escort carriers and destroyers enter the Grand Harbour, Valletta prior to the invasion of the south of France. Various shots of English, French and American ships. ...
Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 26th Indian Division in the Arakan region of Burma, and meets the ...
Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.
Lockheed Hudson ...
Account of soil erosion, its effects and the work of the Forestry Department to combatit.
An intelligence officer briefs pilots of RAF 136 Squadron at Rumkhapalong airfield, whose Supermarine Spitfires kick up clouds of dust as they ...
This RAF instructional film shows the Supermarine Spitfire's various rles in different theatres of war and traces the aircraft's evolution from the victory of the Supermarine S-5 in the ...
A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.
The film opens with shots of traditional rural life - the landscape, cows, horses ploughing the fields, blossoming trees, sheep and finally ...
A young man leaving his village to work in copper mines of Northern Rhodesia; emphasis on contrasts between traditional and modern life.
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to the Kaladan River, Burma.
Through a ...
Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by road to the front in the Arakan, Burma ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special Service Brigade on the Teknaf ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA), visits the recently built floating Bailey bridge over the River Chindwin at ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA), visits the recently built floating Bailey bridge over the River Chindwin at ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied ...
Supreme Allied Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits troops of 25th Indian Division in the Arakan region of Burma.
A Fairmile B motor boat ...
In northern Burma, pack mules are swum across the River Irrawaddy by troops of 36th Division.
Looking over the side of a boat with men in the ...
Ceremony of the presentation of the Sword of Honour to Lord Gort by the people of Malta and Gozo.
Lord Gort is driven from the Palace in Valletta through the streets of ...
Shot on 30 December 1944: Wide shot looking ...
Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the significance of the architecture is emphasised in a commentary set above an Indian score. Seen in the film are paddy fields ...
As Eighth Army continues its advance ...
Scenes from Tiddim, Burma, showing ...
On 17 July 1944 the greatest barrage ever laid down on a single target took place when one hundred guns of medium and field artillery fired nine ...
As the fight begins to take Burma back from the Japanese the Chindits mount long range patrols in the area of the Mogaung Valley to identify and harass ...
21 May 1944. Monsignor Gonzi inspects the Guard of Honour of the King's Own Malta Regiment at the Palace Square, Valetta. He gets into his carriage, which passes through the streets on the way to ...
At Umbertide, in Perugia, Italy, King ...
The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.
The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted by Air Vice Marshal ...
Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.
Shot of a windsock ...
As 8th Indian Division advances on the ...
At Veroli, in Italy's Liri Valley, ...
At a Royal Indian Navy base in southern ...
(Reel 1) B&W - Winter 1939 (?). Kennard in suit by his open-top Ford Tourer, beside camel and Arabs. Playing polo at Alexandria Sporting Club. Boxing and tennis. Third Battalion exercise in desert: large tent encampment near rocky mountains. Soldiers ...
A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the tank. One man holds a small section of track as another uses a torque wrench on ...
After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.
General view of the town of Tiddim in the ...
At a river ford somewhere in the coastal Arakan region of Burma, troops of 25th Indian Division man a crossing and help convey guns across the river ...
