Title:EVACUATION OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY HOSPITAL SHIP FROM SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 329
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.
Description: Walking cases get into civilian cars for transport to Singapore docks. Three walking cases pass camera and get into a car; they are received by a British captain (medical officer?). Four men walk towards camera. A man is helped into a car. A man walking with the aid of a stick. A man on a stretcher, apparently in good spirits; he shakes hands with another man before he is loaded into the back of an ambulance. A man is carried piggyback. Cars and lorries (with men waving) along a road outside the walls of Changi jail. Cars parked on the dockyard; a hospital ship is berthed. Men walk into a shed. Men dismount from a lorry. Walking cases board the ship by gangway. Stretcher cases are carried aboard. Hospital ship in the distance. View of the dockside along the side of the ship. Stretcher cases carried past camera. Ambulance drives slowly along the dockside with naval ratings following behind. British women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) give cups of tea to casualties lying on stretchers on a parked jeep ambulance. Stretcher cases are carried up a gangway.
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)
MacTavish, DuncanDuncan MacTavish, service number 378125, sergeant cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, later promoted 2nd Lieutenant 6 September 1945 (see Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 April 1947). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, AMARAPOORA (HMHS) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Changi, Singapore (geography)
Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees 1945, Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 331 (EVACUATION OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY HOSPITAL SHIP FROM SINGAPORE [Allocated Title])
JIN 117 (EVACUATION OF PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP FROM SINGAPORE [Allocated Title])
