Title:JAPANESE SURRENDER OF 29TH ARMY IN KUALA LUMPUR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 320
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the commander of Japanese 29th Army (Lieutenant-General Ishiguro) surrenders to the commander of XXXIV Indian Corps (Lieutenant-General Roberts) and a march past of troops marks the occasion.
Description: A Union flag flying in front of the main building of the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur. Closer shot of the flag. A civilian car arrives flying a white flag and marked with 'surrender crosses'. Japanese officers go inside. British cars arrive; an officer goes inside. Indian troops of 2nd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment at the 'present arms'. They are inspected by Lieutenant-General Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, commander of XXXIV Indian Corps. A pennant on a staff car shows a leaping jaguar, the insignia of XXXIV Corps. Interior Victoria Institution; the British delegation enters and takes their seats. The British signing party consists of Captain E T Cooper, Royal Navy, Lieutenant-General Roberts and Air Vice Marshal the Earl of Bandon. The Japanese party enters; it consists of Lieutenant-General Teizo Ishiguro (commander 29th Army, Malaya) and Major-General Naoichi Kawahara (Chief of Staff) and Colonel Oguri (staff officer) as witnesses. The surrender is signed by both parties and Ishiguro applies his seal. The Japanese party departs. Japanese soldiers clearing rubbish in front of the Victoria Institution. Union flag flying outside the Instituion; pan down to General Roberts on a saluting base for a march past. A unit of sailors and marines pass. Roberts saluting. Twenty-five pounder field guns are towed past behind tractors. Men of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and the Special Operations Executive's Force 136 formed up opposite the saluting base. Close-up of a Malay (?) man with the phoenix patch of the Supreme Allied Commander and two stars on his collar. A group of children from a local convent school cheering. A jeep heads a column with an officer saluting. Indian soldiers march towards and past camera; the cameraman is crouched between the ranks of troops as they pass. An Indian soldier passes; he wears the 'ace of spades' insignia of 25th Indian Division and a 'Baluch' shoulder title (therefore either 14th or 16th Battalion, 10th Baluch Regiment). Out of focus footage of troops passing a bust, probably of the King. More troops pass. A number of pipers lead a unit of Gurkhas, possibly 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles. Unit of MPAJA pass headed by a colour party with a Union flag and their own flag. A Sherman medium tank passes. The crowd disperses after the march past. The crowd seen from a moving jeep.
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)
Govan, Harold WilliamBritish Army sergeant-cameraman with South East Asia Command Film Unit (British) and No.9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, formerly Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), service number 7662913, BEM in London Gazette 37576 published 21 May 1946, pg 2. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bernard, Percy (person)
Roberts, Ouvry Lindfield (person)
Ishiguro, Teizo (person)
Kawahara, Naoichi (person)
Indian Army, XXXIV Indian Corps (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 25th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 2nd Punjab Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
Special Operations Executive, Force 136 (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 10th Baluch Regiment (regiment/service)
Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (geography)
Operation Zipper 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event)
Allied Occupation of Malaya, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 528 (KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYA: SURRENDER OF SWORDS BY GENERAL ITAGAKI AND STAFF [Allocated Title])
JIN 118 (INDIAN TROOPS RETURN TO KUALA LUMPUR [Allocated Title])
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