Title:HOSPITAL AT JAPANESE LABOUR CAMP NEAR SELETAR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 347
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: After a Japanese forced labour camp is found near Seletar naval base in Singapore, a makeshift hospital is established and Japanese medical orderlies are detailed to tend the sick.
Description: Party of Japanese medical orderlies wearing gauze face masks. Two Japanese with notebooks; one of them is making notes. Medics disinfecting their hands. A Malay labourer, very thin and not expected to survive, lies on a bamboo bed. Medical supplies arriving at the hospital.
Hospital building with crowd of labourers outside. A very underweight man squats in a doorway and folds a piece of fabric. Japanese medical orderlies with a crate of white dressings. A Javanese labourer, wearing a loincloth and ragged shirt, suffering from sores. An emaciated labourer lying in a doorway. Exterior views of the hospital building and the camp site.
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)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
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Keywords: Seletar, Singapore (geography)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Singapore, Second World War (event)
Allied Occupation of Singapore, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
