Title:FUNERAL OF AUSTRALIAN WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATORS KILLED IN JAVA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 579
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: After two Australian war crimes investigators are killed in an ambush near Buitenzorg (now Bogor) south of Batavia (Jakarta) in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) on 17 April 1946, the RAF Regiment provide pall bearers at their funeral.
Description: A flatbed lorry carries the coffins of Flight-Lieutenant McDonald and Captain MacKenzie (Royal Australian Air Force) surrounded by flowers. A contingent of the RAF Regiment follow behind at a slow march. The RAF Regiment contingent. Feet slowly marching. The coffins pass camera. Party of the RAF Regiment with sloped arms march slowly to the grave. The coffins are lifted off the lorry by RAF Regiment pall bearers; a priest leads them. The coffins are placed on props over the open grave.
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)
Pickering, W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, RAF Regiment (regiment/service)
Australian Army, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 3 Prisoner of War Contact and Enquiry Unit (regiment/service)
Royal Australian Air Force (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)
