SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR VISITS HQ SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR VISITS HQ SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 379
  • 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 the headquarters of South East Asia Command (SEAC).
  • Description: Shot on 29 September 1945: An Avro York transport aircraft taxiing; it has the 'phoenix' badge of the Supreme Allied Commander on its nose. Lawson steps down from the aircraft followed by Lord Louis Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander (SAC)) and General Sir William Slim (commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia). Lawson and Mountbatten talking. Mountbatten drives a jeep away with Lawson in the passenger seat. Slim departs by staff car. Another staff car departs. Shot on 30 September 1945: Mountbatten and Lawson get out of a jeep. They talk briefly before Lawson boards a Dakota transport for a flight to Delhi. Dakota taxiing out of shot. Distant shot of Dakota.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: JFU 379
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-09-29
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Rayner, J S (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) Slim, William Joseph (person) Lawson, John James 'Jack' (person) South East Asia Command (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Kandy, Ceylon (geography) Demobilisation, Second World War (event) Repatriation (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: 225 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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    JFU 379

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