Title:19TH INDIAN DIVISION RELAX AT MAYMYO [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 111
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Just days after the capture of Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), central Burma, the town is used as a leave and rest centre for British soldiers.
Description: 275th Anti-Tank Battery Royal Artillery hold a dance on a verandah; they dance with local Anglo-Burmese women. One soldier gives a couple of playful leg kicks as he passes camera. The Anglo-Burmese women and the soldiers sit around table laid out with party food. British troops mess around in Harcourt Butler Lake. They jump into the water off a captured Japanese assault boat. A man dries himself with a towel. A horse-drawn carriage, known as a tanga or tonga, pulls up outside a European-looking brick-built house. This building is now used as a canteen and has been dubbed "The Dagger House" after the badge of 19th Indian Division. British soldiers get out of the carriage wearing bush hats and carrying their rifles. One of them pays the driver. A sign reads. "The 19th Dagger Arms" and it has a crudely painted 14th Army badge on it.
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)
Beech, P M (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 19th Indian Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 275th Anti-Tank Battery (regiment/service)
Keywords: Maymyo, Burma (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 178 (SERVICEMEN LAY ON A CHILDREN'S PARTY AT MAYMYO [Allocated Title])
JFU 177 (SERVICEMEN LAY ON A CHILDREN'S PARTY AT MAYMYO [Allocated Title])
JIN 33 (LIFE RETURNS TO MAYMYO [Allocated Title])
