Title:SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER VISITS TROOPS OF 2ND DIVISION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 235
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division.
Description: A jeep marked with the insignia of 2nd Division (crossed keys) passes camera followed by a large Dodge Command Car carrying Mountbatten and a senior officer (Major-General Nicholson?). Mountbatten gets out and is shown around an area with a number of pagodas in the background. Mountbatten addresses troops. Mountbatten leaving. Mountbatten, standing in the back of his Command Car, looks through a pair of binoculars. A senior officer holds a map. Mountbatten's car passes a signpost marked 'Sadaung' and gives the distance to Sagaing as 27 miles. Mountbatten's car turns off the road, presumably having arrived at his destination. A large crowd of troops, some wearing Scottish tam o'shanters.
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)
Hewit, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Nicholson, Cameron Gordon Graham (person)
British Army, 2nd Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Sadaung, Burma (geography)
Mandalay 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
