Title:ARRIVAL OF SIR ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR AT KALLANG AIRPORT SINGAPORE AND ARRIVAL OF GENERAL STOPFORD [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 474
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Film showing Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, formerly the British ambassador to Moscow and now the special representative of the British government in Java, and General Sir Montagu Stopford, General Officer Commanding Burma Command, arriving at Kallang airport in Singapore.
Description: RAF Regiment guard of honour presenting arms at Kallang airport. Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, takes the salute. Mountbatten and senior officers. Clark Kerr steps down from his aircraft (an RAF Avro York transport) and meets Mountbatten and others. He inspects the guard and watches them march off. Clark Kerr and Mountbatten departing by open car. Rear-Admiral Douglas-Pennant gets into a car. Douglas-Pennant and a (Major-General?) Lang (Mountbatten's liaison officer) in the back of a car. Group shot of the RAF crew of the York transport.
General Stopford steps briskly down an aircraft's ladder. Close-up of General Stopford.
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)
Hutchins, H D (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Clark Kerr, Archibald (person)
Douglas-Pennant, Cyril Eustace (person)
Stopford, Montagu George North (person)
Browning, Frederick Arthur Montague (person)
Kimmins, Brian Charles Hannam (person)
Dempsey, Miles Christopher (person)
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, 2180 Squadron (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, 2891 Squadron (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kallang, Singapore (geography)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
