Title:INDIAN SAPPERS PREPARE A ROAD IN THE ARAKAN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 173
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Indian Sappers and Miners of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen at work with shovels, picks and bulldozers to prepare a road between the villages of Kindaunggyi and Taungup in the Arakan region of Burma.
Description: Sappers at work with a bulldozer behind. The sappers dig out a tree root and haul it away. The bulldozer at work levelling ground and gouging out an embankment.
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)
Bryan-Smyth, G E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 26th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Indian Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: Taungup, Burma (geography)
Kindaunggyi, Burma (geography)
Arakan, Burma (geography)
Third Arakan Campaign 1944-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
