Title:VISIT OF SIR OLIVER LEESE TO OFFICERS AND MEN OF IV CORPS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 267
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.
Description: An RAF Stinson Sentinel light aircraft, serial KJ376, lands on an airstrip at Pegu (Bago, 50 miles north east of Rangoon). General Leese disemplanes and is greeted by Lieutenant-General Frank Messervy, commander of IV Indian Corps, who carries a slung M1 Carbine. Leese talking with officers of 5th Indian Division; note the 'ball of fire' divisional insignia. Talking with officers of 161 Brigade (5th Indian Division) on parade near a pagoda. Leese addresses men of 2nd Battalion, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, part of 98 Brigade of 19th Indian Division (the 'Dagger Division'). Addressing men of 115 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, on the Mawchi Road; their camouflaged gun emplacements can be seen in the background. Leese talking with Messervy and others on a Bailey bridge on the Mawchi Road.
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)
Abbott, J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Leese, Oliver William Hargreaves (person)
Messervy, Frank Walter (person)
British Army, IV Corps (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 5th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 161st Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 19th Indian Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 115th Field Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pegu, Burma (geography)
Battle of the Sittang Bend 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
