Title:TOUR OF THE NEW TERRITORIES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 378
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Admirals Harcourt and Fraser, General Festing and Brigadier Hardy, make a tour of inspection of the Hong Kong New Territories, including a trip to an orphanage and the Chinese border.
Description: On the quayside in Kowloon Admiral Harcourt (naval officer commanding Hong Kong) chats with a number of Dutch officers. Close-up of Harcourt. A guard of honour provided by No.42 Royal Marine Commando presents arms. Festing, Harcourt and Fraser inspect. A pipe band leads a march past outside the Peninsular Hotel; a crowd of Chinese children watch. The officers salute the march past. The officers consult a map to check their route. Harcourt chats to two Norwegian children at a commando post 15 miles from Kowloon. Admiral Fraser (commander-in-chief British Pacific Fleet) and General Festing (General Officer Commanding Hong Kong) examine a marine's rifle; the weapon is an American M1 Garand and therefore unusual in British service. Fraser talking with a commamdo. The officers meet a Miss Jennings, an Australian woman running an orphanage at Tai Po. Fraser meets the children. Festing, smoking a pipe, sits on the bonnet of a jeep with a smiling little Chinese girl. Close-up of a happy-looking Chinese orphan girl. The party arrives at HQ No. 5 Army Commando. A sentry stands next to a sign with an image of two crossed commando daggers with '5' above and '8 Platoon' and '4 Troop' beneath. The party examine a number of captured Japanese guns; they are short-barrelled artillery pieces on wooden wheeled carriages. The party arrives at the Chinese border; in the foreground a Japanese sentry presents arms. A Royal Marine sentry stands with the muzzle and bayonet of his M1 Garand entering shot in the foreground as the party approaches.
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: Fraser, Bruce Austin (person)
Harcourt, Cecil Halliday Jepson (person)
Festing, Francis Wogan (person)
Keywords: Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong (geography)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
