Title:SIR ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR ARRIVES IN BATAVIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 467
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Special Ambassador to Java, arrives by air in Batavia, capital of the Netherlands East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia).
Description: Clark Kerr steps off his aircraft and is greeted by Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Christison and Dr Hubertus van Mook, the Dutch Lieutenant-Governor. Clark Kerr inspects a guard of honour of 366 Battery, 178th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. Wide shot showing Clark Kerr inspecting the guard, with parked cars and a RAF Thunderbolt Mk II fighter-bomber of RAF 81 Squadron in the background. Clark Kerr and Christison.
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)
Miller, E E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mook, Hubertus Johannes van (person)
Clark Kerr, Archibald (person)
Christison, Philip (person)
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 178th Field Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
