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 366
  • 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: RAF detachment presenting arms. Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, inspecting naval personnel. Inspecting a detachment of 4th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment. Inspecting the RAF detachment. RAF detachment gives the general salute and the flag is struck. Mountbatten meets the Aletawya Sayadaw, a very senior pongyi (Buddhist priest). Mountbatten meets British officers and Burmese civil officials. He addresses a crowd.
  • 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 366
  • 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) Wilson, A (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) South East Asia Command (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service) Royal Navy (regiment/service) British Army, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 4th Battalion (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: 185 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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    JFU 366

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 364 (GOVERNMENT HOUSE, RANGOON: PARADE BEFORE HANDOVER FROM MILITARY TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION [Allocated Title]) JFU 365 (VIEWS FROM 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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