Title:SECRETARY OF STATE JACK LAWSON VISITS HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 352
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee's newly-elected Labour government, visits troops and internees in Hong Kong with Admiral Cecil Harcourt, the senior naval officer.
Description:Lawson and Harcourt at Stanley internment camp where they meet Reverend Sandbach, the superintendent of the camp. They walk through the camp. They leave the camp's hospital building and depart by car; the prison buildings can be seen on the hill in the background. Lawson inspects a detachment of No.1 Army Commando on duty on the road between Stanley and Victoria. At Murray Barracks Lawson meets the commanding officer of No.1 Commando. Medium wide shot as he inspects a guard of honour; a man armed with a Thompson submachine gun stands in the foreground (a bodyguard?). He speaks with members of the guard as he inspects them. After crossing the harbour from Hong Kong Island in Admiral Harcourt's barge Lawson comes ashore at Kowloon jetty and is greeted. Lawson inspects a guard of No.44 Royal Marine Commando with Harcourt and General Frank Festing, General Officer Commanding Hong Kong. Outside the Peninsular Hotel in Kowloon (brigade headquarters) Lawson takes the salute at a marchpast by No. 44 Commando headed by the pipe band of No.42 Royal Marine Commando. Lawson meets two Chinese generals, named on the dopesheet as 'Wah Kwok Pun' and 'SK Yee' [sic]. Lawson inspects men of the Hong Kong Defence Volunteers, recently released from internment. Lawson and party arriving at Sham Shui Po prison camp where Japanese troops are now interned. A group of Japanese officers salute the party as they pass and Japanese troops are on parade. Party leaving the camp; the Japanese officers salute again. Leaving the headquarters of No. 44 Commando. Lawson inspecting British officers. Lawson meets a number of Indian Army Sikhs.
Harcourt and Lawson board their car at Government House and it drives away. Lawson meets staff officers at Flagstaff House.
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 352
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (JFU 352)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:-1945-09-22
Production Country:GB
Production Details:War Office Directorate of Public Relations
SEAC Film Unit
