Footage depicting the unsettled political climate in Bandoeng (Bandung) in central Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).

Slow pan left-to-right ...

A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines and a local Chinese team.

General Festing, ...

After nationalist disturbances close the roads to Saigon, capital of French Indo-China, a convoy named 'Operation Saltmeat' is mounted from Phnom Penh ( ...

In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese occupation.

Views of civilians and troops observing ...

In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese occupation.

Senior officers and other dignitaries ...

Field Marshal Lord Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), arrives in Rangoon as part of a tour of South East Asia Command.

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Footage from the Battle of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), including mortar and artillery fire, infantry ...

Chinese refugees flee the fighting in Sourabaya (Surabaya/Soerabaja) in eastern Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).

On a street in Surabaya a ...

In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since the end of the war.

Four ...

32nd Army (Blood) Transfusion Unit work at a forward airfield to save the lives of soldiers from IV Corps wounded in action.

Blood donated in ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, newly appointed commander of 14th Army, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield in Rangoon, Burma, en route to ...

With the Japanese surrender and Allied occupation of south east Asia, large numbers of forced labourers are returned to Malaya from Siam (Thailand) and ...