Title:REPATRIATION OF INTERNEES FROM STANLEY CAMP, HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 368
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The first batch of freed civilian internees leave Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, and are evacuated by the Royal Australian Navy Bathurst Class corvette HMAS Strahan.
Description: Allied flags flying. Group of internees posing in front of the flags. Three children, two girls and a younger boy, by a flag pole. Internees receiving passage tickets. Reverse angle; a smiling woman is given her ticket. Close-up of a passage ticket which reads 'Passenger Card/Ship: Glengyle/Name: Clark J/ Berth: Troop Deck'. Two angles of luggage being loaded onto a lorry. Shot of Graham Cochran, a toddler born in Stanley Camp. Shot of Elizabeth Fife, also born in the camp, with bandages on her legs (possibly from malnutrition-related skin problems). Civilians on the back of an open lorry wave as the lorry drives off. People board a small boat and are helped in by sailors. Boat motoring away. View from a boat with another under tow behind. Internees climb out of the boat to board HMAS Strahan; the camera follows a woman as she comes aboard. View of Strahan (pennant J363) as the cameraman's boat passes across the bow.
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)
Tulloch, John ReayJohn Reay Tulloch, 375458, sergeant (later lieutenant, commissioned 25 April 1946) cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit (SEAC Film Unit). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Australian Navy, STRAHAN (HMAS) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Stanley, Hong Kong (geography)
Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees 1945, Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event)
Prisoners of War, Far East 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
