Title:DELIVERY OF AMMUNITION BY WATER TO UNITS ON THE PEGU CANAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 281
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Watercraft are used to deliver mortar rounds to infantry of 4th Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles (33rd Brigade, 7th Indian Division) and ammunition to 5.5-inch medium batteries sited along the Pegu (Bago) canal, Burma.
Description: View from aboard a DUKW amphibious truck on the Pegu canal. On the riverbank a pile of 5.5-inch artillery rounds is built up; a DUKW can be seen beached in the background. The DUKW is unloaded by Gurkhas. 5.5-inch ammunition is unloaded from a small motorboat. Shells, carried in the bottom of a small wooden rowing boat, are unloaded. Men carrying shells on their shoulders. The rounds are piled up at a battery of Ordnance BL 5.5-inch medium guns. General view of the battery position with men digging in. Ammunition is stacked next to a large road roller.
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)
Hammond, R G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 33rd Indian Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 7th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 1st Gurkha Rifles, 4th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pegu, Burma (geography)
Waw, Burma (geography)
Pegu Canal (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Battle of the Sittang Bend 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
