Title:SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING AND MARCH PAST IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 251
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes after the reoccupation of Rangoon including a march past of troops, church service of thanksgiving, and landing craft on the Rangoon river.
Description: Men marching along a city street in Rangoon with Shwedagon Pagoda visible in the background. Footage from Rangoon river; various motor launches and landing craft are seen including Landing Craft Assault (LCA) 1333 and Landing Craft Infantry Large (LCI(L)) 166. A staff jeep arrives at a church (Old Garrison Church?) in Rangoon for a service of thanksgiving for the end of the war in Europe. Major-General Chambers, commander of 26th Indian Division and Military Governor of Rangoon, is driving. A staff captain sits next to him and two more men (one of them a soldier and the other an officer wearing the patch of 2nd Division) behind him. High wide shot from an opposite building showing men leaving the church and marching away. Chambers meets Brigadier Lauder, commander of 36th Brigade. Chambers inspects troops. A march past; Chambers takes the salute from a small saluting base. An American officer and the divisional padre are present.
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)
Brown, T V (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 26th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Liberation of Rangoon 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
