Title:DISARMING JAPANESE TROOPS ON THE CHINESE BORDER NORTH OF KOWLOON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 370
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At an outpost near the Chinese border north of Kowloon, a number of Japanese soldiers are disarmed and transported to an internment camp at Fanling.
Description: Japanese officer talking with Captain Henry, a Public Relations officer, through an interpreter. The officer and a small number of soldiers. Pan from the Japanese soldiers, one with a fixed bayonet, to the officers talking. Portrait of an armed Japanese soldier, seen smoking. Japanese troops waiting to board a light lorry. The officer, carrying four rifles and still wearing his sword, puts the rifles on the front seat of a jeep. Japanese troops board the lorry. Japanese troops are paraded with their personal kit. They hold their hands up and are searched by Royal Marine commandos at Fanling. A marine goes through items of kit. He looks at a mess tin. Japanese entering a wooden building.
Footage taken the next day: Japanese troops sitting in long grass. Japanese troops standing with horses. Two Japanese officers (a captain and a lieutenant) with a British officer (named on the dopesheet for JFU 381 as Major Heppenstall of No.5 Commando). Japanese soldier and horse in foreground looking towards other Japanese troops formed up in the distance. The Japanese troops march off.
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: British Army, No.1 Commando (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
Keywords: Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong (geography)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Hong Kong, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
