Title:LANDING AT SINGAPORE BY 5TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 311
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Footage of 5th Indian Division's landing at Singapore in September 1945 including views of warships, liberated Allied prisoners of war and welcoming crowds.
Description:Part 1, shot by Sergeant Sanders: View from a landing craft with the Singapore skyline on the horizon and Landing Craft Medium LCM 4038 directly ahead. Indian troops. Wide view of prisoner of war camp with group shots and close-ups of British, Australian and Dutch prisoners. More views from a landing craft heading for Singapore. Mobile shot from a jeep driving along a Singapore street with civilians standing at the roadside. A welcome banner hangs from (telephone or electricity?) cables above the street. Column of British and Indian troops marching. A group of Japanese prisoners of war is guarded by a number of Indian troops. Waving civilians at the roadside as lorry loads of Indian troops drive through the streets; Chinese flags are in evidence.
Part 2, shot by Sergeant MacTavish: Views of the London Class cruiser HMS Sussex (flagship of Rear Admiral Cedric Holland, leading the convoy to Singapore). Other ships on the horizon in overcast conditions. Red Ensign flying from a mast. One of the convoy's destroyer escorts. Soldiers descending a rope ladder into a Landing Craft Medium from the troopship HMT Devonshire. The landing craft motors away with the cameraman onboard. Landing craft heading ashore. Looking down into a landing craft with troops coming down a gangway staircase. A cine cameraman (Sergeant Sanders?) films proceedings. Singapore skyline and a view of an escorting warship, probably a Dido Class cruiser. Freed prisoners of war cheering at the gates to a prison camp. Close-ups of the prisoners. View from jeep driving through the streets; some taken with a longer lens and giving a slightly excessive sense of speed.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:JFU 311
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (JFU 311)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:-1945-09-05
Production Country:GB
Production Details:War Office Directorate of Public Relations
SEAC Film Unit
MacTavish, Duncan
Sanders, P.A.
