Title:AMPUTATION IN THE FIELD BY NO.6 MOBILE SURGICAL UNIT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 36
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at Myebon, Burma, after he was captured and left for dead by the Japanese.
Description: Rifleman Kayiman Rai took part in the attack on Feature 262 on 15 January 1945. He was wounded by a grenade and captured by the Japanese who bayoneted him in the hand, chest and wrist. The Japanese left him for dead and he was discovered by advancing British troops three day later, after being in the jungle with no food or water, with gangrene setting into his leg. He was taken to a Main Dressing Station on Easy Beach (58 Indian Field Ambulance, 25th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps). Number 6 Mobile Surgical Unit perform an amputation of the leg. The leg is examined and prepared for surgery. The surgeon, Major A C Greene (Indian Medical Service, Officer Commanding No.6 Indian Mobile Surgical Unit), carries out the procedure and the stump is inspected before it is bandaged and the patient is returned to the ward.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Rayner, J S (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Indian Army Medical Corps, 58 Indian Field Ambulance (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, 6 Mobile Surgical Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: Myebon, Burma (geography)
Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
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