GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RANGOON: PARADE BEFORE HANDOVER FROM MILITARY TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RANGOON: PARADE BEFORE HANDOVER FROM MILITARY TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 364
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held at Government House, Rangoon, with Lord Mountbatten in attendance.
  • Description: Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, inspects men of the Burmese Patriotic Forces (BPF, formerly Burma National Army). Mountbatten issuing his Order of the Day. Mountbatten shaking hands with United States Army Brigadier-General C C Fenn (Judge-Advocate, China-Burma-India theatre).
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: JFU 364
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-10-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Taylor, A (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) South East Asia Command (regiment/service) Japanese Forces, Burma National Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography) Resumption of British Civil Administration 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) India 1939-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 53 ft; Running time: 1 min
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    JFU 364

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 365 (VIEWS FROM GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RANGOON: PARADE BEFORE HANDOVER FROM MILITARY TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION [Allocated Title]) JFU 366 (GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RANGOON: PARADE BEFORE HANDOVER FROM MILITARY TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION [Allocated Title]) JFU 367 (GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RANGOON: PARADE BEFORE HANDOVER FROM MILITARY TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION [Allocated Title])
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