Title:36TH DIVISION SIGNALLERS LAY CABLE IN THE HOPIN AREA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 181
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Signallers of 36th Division seen laying telephone wires from a Brigade HQ to a forward battalion in the Hopin area of Northern Burma.
Description: A sign reads 'Signals' and is marked with the 36th Division insignia of two overlapping circles. Two signallers emerge, one of them carrying a drum of telephone cable with a Thompson submachine gun slung on his back. The drum is fitted to a mounting on a modified jeep. The jeep drives slowly forward and two men lay the cable. They run the cable through nearby foliage to prevent it being snagged by men or vehicles. Close-up of a signaller sitting by the cable drum. A signaller tests the line using a small field telephone. Close-up of the signaller. View from the moving jeep as cable is paid out behind. Thick undergrowth; a signaller passes through carrying a drum of cable which pays out behind him. A second signaller follows and runs the cable through foliage.
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)
Sanders, P A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Northern Combat Area Command (regiment/service)
British Army, 36th Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Corps of Signals (regiment/service)
Keywords: Hopin, Burma (geography)
Operations in Northern Burma 1943-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 8 (LAYING A SIGNAL LINE ACROSS THE SHWELI RIVER [Allocated Title])
JFU 186 (OPENING THE ROAD OVER THE SLOPES OF MOUNT POPA TO KYAUKPADAUNG [Allocated Title])
