Title:BRITISH MEDALS FOR MALAYAN GUERILLAS IN SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 499
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and other members of the Malayan resistance at the Municipal Building, Singapore.
Description: Shot of the watching crowd of servicemen and civilians. A guard of honour of 1st Battalion Cameronians present arms; they wear hackles and patches of 2nd Division. Mountbatten inspects them. Close-up of a member of the guard. Mountbatten passes camera. Wide shot; a bandmaster turns to his band and in the background Mountbatten walks up the steps in the background. Wide shot troops paraded in the foreground with steps behind. Crowd watching. Shot of a sign reading 'Head Quarters Singapore Division - British Military Administration'. Mountbatten decorates a guerilla. Crowd. Close-up of a civilian in the crowd. The pipe band of the Cameronians standing stationary while a Royal Marine band marches behind. Oblique view of the Municipal Building. Motorcycle outriders (presumably Royal Military Police) pass camera followed by Mountbatten's staff car. Guard of honour. Pipe band marching with Union flag flying behind; the guard of honour follows trailing arms. They march off the field. A large stationary car, possibly being used by the Army Film and Photographic Unit; with a man at the rear dealing with a piece of equipment (a microphone?) and there appears to be another standing on the roof. View of the parade ground. Band on the road in front of the Municipal Building and men (backs to camera - view from the top of the car seen earlier?) at the salute. Mountbatten departing seen from street level. Pipe band marching 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)
Evans, W [cameraman] (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Corps of Royal Marines (regiment/service)
South East Asia Command (regiment/service)
British Army, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Highland Light Infantry (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: Singapore (geography)
Allied Occupation of Singapore, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
Clandestine Operations, Resistance Movements (event)
Guerilla Operations 1943-1945, Malaya, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
